Screen sharing connecting then immediately disconnecting

I've recently bought an Intel Mac Mini for my Mother to use, and installed it at her place with Leopard. I'm running Leopard on my Macbook pro, and was hoping to use iChat screen sharing to solve problems for her. Now my problem here is that when I try to initiate screen sharing, the connection goes through, and sometimes (but not always) we see the large writing across the screen, but then it immediately disconnects citing the inititiator as disconnecting the screen sharing session. This happens whether I initiate screen sharing or my mother does.
I am on a 10+ meg broadband connection with 700kb upload, and she's currently on a 2 meg connection with 256 + kb connection. Is this part of the problem? I've opened port 5900 on her router to pass through to her computer. Also internally on my network ichat sharing works as it should.

After an hour if pulling out my hair, I finally had an idea of what might be causing the crash... I noticed I had my old iSight plugged in (the external firewire iSight) into my Apple Cinema Display. I unplugged it and iChat screen sharing worked PERFECTLY. You should also know that I don't have problems with my iSight, it works well on Video Chat and Audio Chat and even presentation mode but, it screwed up screen sharing.
In conclusion, if you're experiencing sudden connection losses with iChat screen sharing, check to see if you have an iSight plugged into your Mac and unplug it.

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