OK, Why can't Tiger talk to Leopard?

Well, since there are about a million threads titled "problem" I thought I'd be more specific. Here's the deal, I'm using a MacBook Pro, with OSX 10.4.11 & iChat 3.1.9. I use my iChat all the time to talk to my father across the country with narry a hitch. Now, suddenly I can't talk to him on his new MacBook running Leopard. I can still link up fine to his Tiger machine 3 feet away from the MacBook, however. Both machines are using his wireless network so the only difference is OSX 5.
To confirm this, I called up a buddy with a spanking new MacBook Pro & tried to contact him with the same results. Almost as soon as he accepts the chat request, I get one of those massive error messages. So the problem seems to be talking from Tiger to Leopard or back (he gets the same message when he tries to contact me).
Others on this board seem to be having the same problem, but so far I haven't seen a solution that works.
So what's the deal? Why can't my never-failed-before machine talk to brand-spanking-new ones?
Why can't Tiger talk to Leopard?

How has he set the ports to be open for iChat 3 and 4 in his modem or router or for two computers ?
11:49 AM Saturday; March 22, 2008

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