iChat av 2.0 and 2.1 going nutz..

[adamjay]

okay so all of the sudden iChat 2.1 (beta) quit on me and when i reopen it, its like all my buddies are gone. the entire buddy list is BLANK

is anyone else having this problem?

i reverted to 2.0 and still have the problem, rebooted, blah blah. annoying.

i attached a screen shot so you can get a visual of what i mean

 

[adamjay]

okay some how my preferences in buddy list tab of iChat got messed up when it crashed (i was trying to send a picture) and it set it to only allow specific peope on my list. i changed the pref and now its fixed. wierd, but thats why they call it beta.