Problems with iChat 4.0.2 / Leopard / BT HomeHub

I have a .Mac account and iChat 4 on a iMac running Leopard 10.5.2 and using A BT Home Hub for my internet connection. I am able to have a video chat with my wife who has a Powerbook / Leopard / iChat 4 set up in our house, both using the BT Home Hub. But when I try to set up a video chat with my friend in Copenhagen who has a .Mac account and a Powerbook running Leopard it won't let us connect. It will let us have a text only chat.
I have read various posts on this subject and changed the firewall to let iChat in, changed the Quicktime streaming to 1.5 Mbps and changed the port in iChat server settings to 443.
Has anyone else any ideas, I am thinking maybe the Home Hub is the problem as i can connect to my wife's Powerbook on our home network.

I too am having problems with iChat 4.02 on an iMac running Leopard 10.5.2 as are numerous people having different hardware/software configurations. I've tried some of the suggestions like changing the server settings to 443, and changing the firewall to let iChat in. I believe somewhere, somehow Apple or AOL have changed something that may be causing these problems. I'm not technical enough to go changing a bunch of things and hope it works.
iChat was working for me about a week or so ago using AIM. I could video chat with a MacBook running 10.5.2, a MacBook Pro running Tiger and a Dell PC. Last night when I tried using AIM and iChat i could only text. However, I could video chat using our dotmac accounts and server settings 5190. But for some reason you aren't able to do that.
At first I thought it was because I stumbled into using CUPS to get my Xerox color laser printer finally working (after getting the new iMac) by changing localhost:631 to find my printer at port 9100 (whatever all of this means). But deleting the printer didn't restore iChat.
Someone on this forum suggested that installing Safari 3.1.1 may have somehow caused the problem. Maybe they are on to something!
My most recent software updates are:
2008-04-08 15:27:20 -0400: Installed "AirPort Utility" (5.3.1)
2008-04-08 15:27:24 -0400: Installed "Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update" (2.0)
2008-04-08 15:27:48 -0400: Installed "QuickTime" (7.4.5)
2008-04-08 15:28:32 -0400: Installed "iTunes" (7.6.2)
2008-04-08 15:30:25 -0400: Installed "GarageBand ’08 Instruments and Apple Loops" (1.0)
2008-04-08 15:30:40 -0400: Installed "Time Machine and AirPort Updates" (1.0)
2008-04-08 15:30:45 -0400: Installed "Keynote Update" (4.0.3)
2008-04-08 15:30:54 -0400: Installed "Front Row Update" (2.1.3)
2008-04-08 15:31:30 -0400: Installed "Security Update 2008-002" (1.1)
2008-04-08 15:31:47 -0400: Installed "Safari" (3.1)
2008-04-16 17:47:07 -0400: Installed "iMac EFI Firmware Update" (1.3)
2008-04-16 17:47:09 -0400: Installed "Aluminum Keyboard Firmware Update" (1.0)
2008-04-16 17:47:26 -0400: Installed "Safari" (3.1.1)
2008-04-23 19:31:31 -0400: Installed "iMac EFI Firmware Update" (1.3)
At the moment I need my printer working, more than I need iChat. But I do hope someone figures out why this isn't working!

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