iChat no longer launches

[Steve]

I ran Repair Permissions from within Disk Utility.
It fixed some things, but none looked like they related to iChat.
I re-ran iChat and it still doesn't launch.
What is Preferential Treatment?

> From: X-Applications <X-Apps at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 05:56:02 -0700
> To: X-Applications <X-Apps at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: X-Apps Digest #993
> 
> From: W Lane <wilann at telusplanet.net>
> Subject: Re: [X-Apps] iChat no longer launches
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:18:30 -0600
> 
> 
> On Aug 4, 2004, at 16:49, Steve wrote:
> 
>> Great suggestion!
>> 
>> 
>> I am almost kicking myself for not trying that.
>> 
>> I created a new user, enabled user switching, and the program runs
>> from the
>> alternate user. So I copied the prefs (4 files) from
>> ~/Library/Preference/com.Apple.ichat.* to my main user.
> 
> OK, I suspect this would be a problem. I don't believe that you can
> copy/move preferences from one User direct to another, permissions
> would likely be a problem.
> 
> Have you run Disk Utility and/or Preferential Treatment?