The checkbox: "When iChat opens, automatically log in" is not present anymore, how do I get it back??

First pic shows the button as I'm used to, second pic shows it missing.... running 10.7.2 and iChat 6.0.1

Hi,
In looking this up I have looked at the com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist on a computer running Snow Leopard (iChat 5.x.x) and also on a computer using Messages 6.1  (it seems Messages Beta still uses the same .plist to store info about the AIM Accounts)
All have a Line about Auto Login set to 1 even though in Messages the option to set it is not there.
As you have found out this setting also depends on whether or not the account is Logged in on Quit.
(In Snow Leopard/iChat 5 I could not get the "1" to even if I set the account to Not Login Automatically)
I see the same Auto Login setting of 1 in my com.apple.ichat.Jabber.plist as well (Seeing you are talking about a Jabber Login)
There is obviously more to this than I have found so far.
It seems if an Account is Enabled then the setting kicks in but it stays set at one even if the account is Not Enabled.
This was the closest that I have found elsewhere
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080826165311174
I say closest as I don't fully understand what they were setting up and where to edit it.
(I think several of the posts refer to what is being done in a short form rather than in Full which is not helping understanding - I did follow some of the links (in the original post and the reference to an Archived thread) in the thread.)
9:23 PM      Sunday; March 4, 2012
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