My apple id and passwords works well with everything except when I try to connect to ichat( I have never successfully been connected since I bought this computer in February) Why?

HI,

Not enough info really.

The Mac could be an older one sold as new and have Snow Leopard and iChat 5 running on it.

This would mean any iCloud issued @me.com name from Apple would not work.

This is due to a change brought in for iChat 6 (Lion) and Messages in Mountain Lion where the app logs in to me.com which then allows the AIM servers to "See" the Password.

Also only @mac.com and @me.com names work as AIM valid Screen Names.

The new @icloud.com ending ones also works as AIM Screen Names (in iChat 6 and Messages only)

iChat version ?

Screen Names issued Where ?

What OS version ?

9:54 PM Sunday; November 11, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously