[ironlung]

I mostly use adium. Ever since i upgraded to 10.3.9 I have had problems with a number of things (e.g system preferences hanging even after a restart). Most of my problems went away after shutting down and turning the pbook back on.

Now for some strange reason I cant log on to AIM, either using adium or aol IM 4.7. I have no troubles logging onto msn messenger. I can even log onto aim using aim express (via firefox). Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

[Wraven]

Did you try logging on to AIM using iChat? Let us know so we can use that detail (if need be).

[ironlung]

yes i did. Didnt work

[WBG4]

Are you at home? Have you tried tossing the prefs?

[ironlung]

im new to macs so wouldnt know what u exactly mean by 'tossing the preferences'. However Ive never had aols aim software for OSX (which i installed to test the problem) and i could still not log on. It keeps saying connection dropped by host, after trying to verify my username and password

[WBG4]

Hmmm sounds like a proxy problem or something, let me think on this for a bit

[ironlung]

Well i think i know why I got this problem. I basically updated everything i could using software update including isight (I plan on buying one next week). I had never run ichat before. Apple's support website has something on this. I got a different error when I tried what they told me to, but ichat doesnt remember my preferences.

So i updated isight, and it asked me to connect isight to the pbook which i obviously dont have yet so i made it force quit. I think ive had the problem ever since... i just didnt realize it, because 10.3.9 came right afterwards

[FFL]

Go to your Home folder and open Library folder and open the Preferences folder.

Delete the following files:
com.apple.iChat.AIM.plist
com.apple.iChat.plist
com.apple.iChat.SubNet.plist
com.apple.iChatAgent.plist

Log out and then back in for good measure.

[ironlung]

FFL,
I tried what you told me. iChat now attempts to log onto aim, but i get the same error as with AIM 4.7 and adium. I tried making a new account and trying to log on using ichat, didnt work either. My friend has an ibook, and i was able to log on from there

[WBG4]

NOW THAT'S WEIRD! ummmmm hmmm not sure what to say

[ironlung]

I forgot to mention this but I didnt have this file com.apple.iChat.SubNet.plist

[ironlung]

Deleting the above mentioned files again, restarting gave me this error one time with aim 4.7: An unknown connection error has occurred: 506,5

Brad any ideas?

[ironlung]

hmm problem fixed. On some one's advice on the apple support forums, I installed the last security update again..and then 10.3.9 again. Works now.

[ast3r3x]

Since when does AIM use java?

[ironlung]

Originally Posted by ast3r3x Since when does AIM use java?

The problem came about with me installing the update for isight without having one. I dont know what it has to do with java, but reinstalling 10.3.9 alone did not fix my problem. Only after the security update could I log on again. However, I still can not log on to AIM using iChat.