"show chat participants" grayed out

Once I have a chat going, "show chat participants" is grayed out, so I can't add anyone. I'm using version 4.0.3 Anyone encountered this? any solutions? (I'm NOT attempting a Bonjour chat. )
BTW, why isn't there an iChat 4 discussion category when there is one fore version 3?

The only way to do that is to Start a Group chat first (in iChat 4)
I seem to remember that in Tiger you could make a chat a group chat by Dragging others to it.
The regular posters in the various iChat discussions have had conversations with the Hosts over this issue.
It seems, so I understand we were told, that it has to do with the older iChat forums being somewhat of an oddity as far as the Layout of all the forums are concerned as it is not hardware or a Pro App.
Another issue appears to be how and where new Categories and the forums associated with them are added. We seem to have been told that a new forum can not be added under the current Discussion Software to an Existing category.
We have suggested that a Category announcement like this one is added
As this appears in iChat 2 & Earlier and iChat 3 above the Topic List as well.
Thanks for the Points.
9:20 PM Sunday; June 29, 2008
Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK) "Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."

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