Adium

Using adium too here and discovered not so long ago that skype allows macuser to video chat with pc users give it a try .. ...

I had the same problem on my iMAC intel. I found ADIUM to be a super nice messenger which works fine. It is free and worth supporting. ...

iChat is essentially AIM, just a much better client, the network is fine. I don't think the Mac version of messenger supports video though, its a pretty weak client. For text only chat I use Adium, which runs almost every network, but can't do video yet. I think skype now supports video on Mac as well. That should work with your iSight.

w up and are there but I dont have permission to do anything to them, half of the folders have a little red dot on the bottom right corner, and when I try to run adium and other programs it tells me I dont have the right permissions. ...

That's not normal. I can send and receive MSN messages with both the newest MSN version for Mac from Microsoft as well as Adium. Might be kind of a network or account problem?

with only dashboard and adium running. ...

yeh ive tried adium etc and they work when i connect to other wireless networks so its not the mac's firewall! ...

The other option is to try an alternate MSN client, like Adium or aMSN. ...

The developers of Fire have announced on their web site that development is to cease. Fire is/was a multi-protocol instant messaging application for OS X, and could be used with AIM, ICQ, irc, Jabber (including Google Talk and Apple iChat Server), MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and Apple Bonjour. The message on the front of the web page reads:

I wonder if adium will ever support Skype IM down the line? ...