Why does my AIM keep disconnecting in iChat? (MacOSv10.7.5 iChatv6.0.2)

I have recently updated to Mac OS Lion now at 10.7.5 & cannot upgrade to Mavericks as my machine is just under the requirements. Ever since I have made this upgrade, my AIM accounts on iChat have been logging themselves out in about under 5 minutes. I log them back in, but then same things happpen. To note, my GCHAT & JABBER accounts stay logged in without problem.
How do I stop this from happening? I have read may of the previous reported issue & the results I have found instructions to delete the preference files com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist & com.apple.iChat.plist which i have done several times (deleting them before quitting & deleting after quit) but to no avail.
My server setting for both accounts is..
Server: login.oscar.aol.com
Port: 5190
This did not use to happen to me before the LION upgrade. I also use to have CHAX installed, but I have uninstalled it as I know it no longer works with 10.7 & above.
Any trick here that I am missing?

HI,
I have Little Snitch to show me the pop ups to Allow the items for Messages (and previously iChat) when it launches.
I believe you can set different option other than Allow Forever and Until Quit.
The drop down shows me this:-
I thinks that the Until Logout is you as the Mac User login rather than the Apps login to AIM.
I have not tried using it this way.
The "Once" item at the bottom might give clearer idea if you had to allow it each time it logged in.
I am not quite sure what the Console messages is about.
The URL would most likely be the IP address that you computer is at.
About ten minutes might be Idle time  if you are not using the Keyboard or Mouse at all.
Of course this message may have nothing to do with the Network dropping out.
Something that happens regularly such as fetching Mail might be the cause.
7:54 pm      Wednesday; December 11, 2013
  iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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