One for Tim Harris: iChat and Directory Services

Hi Tim or anyone else that know the answer,
I have a thread in iChat 3's forum http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2589810
The Poster is using an iChat server and has "several thousand" contacts listed in Directory Services.
What he wants to do and has been doing on a one by one basis is have the "real Name" details show in his iChat.
Currently he is using the Add Buddy Card and the Address Book Arrow to access the Address Book then he navigates to the Directory Services Entry for that person.
1) Is there a method of making iChat see the info in Directory Services ?
2) Without creating a Address Book with thousands of entries is there a quick and easy method to get those Buddies in his iChat connected to the info in the Directory Services other than the method he is doing ?
(AppleScript, Automator or similar).
3) Am I barking up completely the wrong tree ?
7:52 PM Thursday; September 23, 2010

Closing as there is another thread.
8:17 PM Tuesday; September 28, 2010
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