Video chat btw vista vaio and intel imac "declines invitation" and freezes

My mother is visiting with her vaio laptop with built in camera and I am trying to setup our computers to video chat I have tried aim 6.1 and 5.9 - on her computer
6.1 starts to work but decines invitation and ichat freezes on mac side and shows black screen on pc side.
when I installed 5.9 on vista pc it offered no video I guess could not see vista built in camera?
please help!
Lorin
intel imac 24 inch Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi laf66,
Has the Vista Firewall been set up to allow AIM6.exe as an Exception ?
This is the XP method http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page12.html#_Service
How is your router or routing modem set up to allow the AIM ports as opposed to the iChat ones ?
AIM needs to be using UPnP or have ports 1024-5000 allowed.
(don't ask me how AIM and iChat work the ports out but they do)
8:47 PM Sunday; May 20, 2007

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