MAJOR crash - help with fixing iCal and iChat

[Charles Martin]

> From: Pam Sorooshian <pamsoroosh at earthlink.net>
> The WORST result is that iChat doesn't work. I can see my buddy list,
> it appears to be working - shows who is available, etc. People can IM
> me and I can receive their IMs. But I cannot type into the send box and
> so cannot send IMs to anybody. I thought maybe this would be magically
> corrected if I redid the OS X update to 10.2.3 - so I did that - but it
> didn't work.
>
> Ideas to get my calendar info into iCal or to get iChat working?

This sure sounds like a permissions problem or a .plist (preference) 
file problem.

Try deleting com.apple.iCal.plist and com.apple.iChat.plist from the 
Home/Library/Preferences folder.

If that doesn't solve the problem, try running Disk Utility and "Repair 
Permissions." (I can't imagine that they wouldn't have done this at the 
Apple Store, but hey it doesn't hurt to try).

If that doesn't fix it, let us know.

_Chas_
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