AIM errors

I would like to preface my statement by saying yes I do know about I-Chat but would rather use the actual AIM client.

Now I installed AIM and was working fine. Then it began to kick me off and revert me back to my original settings. Now when I start AIM *every time* it says "AIM has unexpectedly quit". I tried re-opening no luck. I tried restarting, no luck. I updated my software, no luck. I uninstalled and re-installed, no luck. Still I get this error message. How can I get this to stop?

Here is some of the error info

Date/Time: 2007-08-28 12:21:15.112 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2232)
Report Version: 4

Command: AOL Instant Messenger (SM)
Path: /Applications/AOL Instant Messenger (SM) ƒ/AOL Instant Messenger (SM)/Contents/MacOS/AOL Instant Messenger (SM)
Parent: WindowServer [61]
Rosetta: Yes

Version: 4.7 (1333)

PID: 479
Thread: Unknown

Exception: EXC BADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN INVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x263abe30

Thread 0:
0 <<00000000>> 0x85cf483b 0 + -2050013125

Thread 1:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb822fa2b strchr + 72
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb81cb43b pthread condwait + 3114
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8167612 catch exception_raise_stateidentity + 318
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8166b4e CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 177088
4 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8166a45 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 176823
5 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8167710 catch exception_raise_stateidentity + 572
6 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8200bb4 pthread_create + 1124

Unknown thread crashed with i386 Thread State:
eax: 0x263abe30 ebx: 0x00000b67 ecx:0x0000005f edx: 0x263abe2f
edi: 0x000016ce esi: 0x8fc552c8 ebp:0x8200cf80 esp: 0xb7fffabc
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010203 eip:0x85cf483b cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs:0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037



there was more weird number looking things but this is the main portion

any help I thank you in advance