I tried deleting those files, the Agent one wasn't there, but I deleted the others I when I try to open ichat it bounces, I get the little black triangle under, but nothing else and then the triangle disappears. I have no idea why it just started happening, it is interesting that someone else is having the same problem. To follow up it started this on the 16th here at school, I went home for the weekend and didn't have a problem, but when I came back it started again. I thought it might be that I use wireless at home and Ethernet cable here, but I haven't been able to test that theory by taking it to a hotspot, though since it won't open really at all now I don't know. The only reason I haven't tried reformatting is I haven't had time. :-/