Opening saved iChats in Leopard takes FOREVER

Ever since I upgraded to 10.5 my saved iChat logs seem to take a very long time to open, depending on their size. The smaller ones open fairly quickly but a larger one, 75k+, gets hung up and can take from 30 seconds to much longer. If it is more than 15 seconds or so, the spinning wheel starts and iChat will pretty much be frozen up until the file is open. I just opened a 284k chat log and it took over 20 minutes, freezing up iChat with the spinning wheel the whole time.
Does anyone else have this problem, and possibly a solution? Obviously taking 20 minutes to open a 284k file isn't normal.

MacBook Pro 2gig with 2Gb RAM
120kb old iChat 3 file - essentially Instant.
180kb iChat 3 file - same
recent iChat 4 20kb file - same
This was done by navigating to the iChat folder and double Clicking.
The New filing system by date seems not to effect things.
Using Open recent in iChat itself was slightly longer for some reason but you can not see the size.
9:54 PM Thursday; January 10, 2008

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