I set up Openfire on my own computer so that I didn’t have to connect to a third party jabber server through iChat. I basically did what this article says (http://blog.toonetown.com/2007/12/10-steps-to-multi-protocol-ichat.html). The problem is, that once I set up my server and connected iChat, I wanted to add all my contacts from Address Book (they all have their “jabber” field set, so all I have to do is drag and drop them into iChat). However, once I do that, they all appear to be offline (except one or two contacts occasionally) and after I log out and back in, or after about 10-30 seconds all my contacts just vanish (for some reason, a few contacts that have two different jabber IDs set in Address Book remain, but they are offline).
I’ve tried everything that you normally do on a mac when things go wrong, trash the .plist, repair permissions, you name it. Nothing seems to fix it. Any ideas? I recorded a video of what happens, its sideways but you can tell what is happening…