Speed of iChat's "speak announcements" feature can't be changed.

I'm recently using a Late 2009 unibody MacBook with OS 10.6.2, migrating from an Early 2009 model running 10.5.8. And it seems that the "speaking rate" setting in the System Preferences, Speech control panel no longer applies to iChat, with the "speak announcements" feature turned on.
It seems that iChat's speech feature now defaults to the "Normal" rate regardless of what's set in the System Preferences.
iChat still honors the "System Voice" selection, however.
Anyone have any insights or suggestions for fixing this?

Hi,
I played with this early on in iChat (2 and 3) but not try different speeds.
I have just tried it on my Leopard computer and iChat does not seem to obey the speed setting either for me.
(I am playing Civ 4 on my MacBook Pro running Snow so I can not check there at the moment).
9:45 PM Monday; January 25, 2010
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