Two users can't login to Bonjour, but other users can

All the Macs in my house are set to log into iChat on startup, which creates a defacto messaging network around the house. Quite handy. But now, on one particular machine (a G5 iMac iSight) two users can't seem to log into Bonjour, although on the same machine all the other users can.
I've looked at some other posts on this site, and have checked that Address Book shows 'me' as correct for both users. The Firewall is not set to Essential Services Only, and there is no limit on the bandwidth. The Quicktime streaming setting is set to 1.5 mbps.
In iChat, when using one of the two troublesome logins on the G5, when I click cmd-2 to bring up the Bonjour list, it says Bonjour is not enabled, and gives a click button to enable it. But clicking it does nothing - no effect whatsoever.
When those two same users use the external Buddy List (and an AIM screen name) their iChat works fine.

Hi Nick,
This is what I have found out.
It relates more to Shares shown in the Finder but may offer clues.
I have G4 Tower that has been upgraded from Jaguar actually, to Panther, Tiger and Finally Leopard.
Along the way I bought a MacBook Pro. (Now on Snow Leopard)
At this Point I changed the G4's Computer name to represent it was the G4 and called the MacBook Pro "MacBook Pro" rather than my first Admin Account name (otherwise both Computer names and Short names would have been the same)
I also changed the Leopard's My Card in the Address Book to give it a different Name in iChat.
Somewhere during this process the G4 ended up with a Ralph-G4.local ID, a computer's name of Ralph Johns's Computer, a Address Book ID of Ralph G4 and the short name of ralphjohns
The MacBook Pro has MacBook Pro as the Computer name and .local name and the short name is alsoralphjohns. The Address Book My Card is my full name.
Now in discussion with a Level 4 poster who knows more about this than I do I found out that in Leopard if File Sharing is Off the Bonjour ID is still supposed to show in the Snow Leopard Shares.
However if it is ON whether you use AFP or SMB or Both it is only supposed to appear once and mine was appearing twice.
Changing the Computer name to something else seemed to confuse things (I could not Log on to share from Either Computer)
Changing the name back resolved that but changed the .local ID on the G4 as well.
(Changing the .local name back to what it was before seems to have had now effect now.)
However the G4 now only shows once in the MacBook Pro Shares.
I do not think the Upgrades are the distinguishing feature more my poor attempts at making sure the new (then) MacBook Pro had a different ID than the G4.
I have been able to Bonjour Video and send files as well as see the Other Computer in the Bonjour Buddy lists.
So in summary.
The Address Book My Cards have to be Different.
Sometimes changing the Computer name or the .local name does seem to cause issues in File Sharing - which may have some influence on Bonjour as a whole.
Whilst my G4 was showing up in the MacBook Pro as two Shares it was listing the .local name and the Computer's Name as shown in Sharing which were different.
It maybe this if it is happening for this computer that may give clues.
7:59 PM Thursday; October 15, 2009
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