iChat and the B&W G3's FW...

   I've been having problems with iChat for the last few months. The thing is that after quitting iChat, after having it running for a bit, it would then refuse to connect back again. It would come up saying that there was a problem reconnecting. I could try and try and it wouldn't make a difference.
   On a hunch of mine, I decided to see if disconnecting the firewire webcam would make a bit of difference. Sadly, the first time I disconnected it there was no change. The suprise came when I hooked it back up. iChat decided to reconnect. Hmm, I thought.
   It is well known in the Mac world (well, it was at one time, before the Wheel continued turning) that the B&W G3's implemention of firewire is somewhat unreliable. This is especially noticeable with firewire-based hard drives. Mind you, the fix is to simple use a firewire pci card. They are usually a dime-a-dozen these days.
   I haven't experimented further on my hypothesis, but I fully intend to.

EDIT:  It seems that all I needed to do was change the port that iChat uses to connect to the AIM network. Strange. I wonder why messing around with the firewire webcam seemed to make a difference. Whatever, it works now.