iChatAgent is just fine

This might be old news to some, but I still see chatter around the net on the topic of iChatAgent not responding, and whether or not this is reason to panic, pull one's hair out or even wipe the entire OS X installation and start from scratch. Fortunately, for the sake of everyone's haircut, Macosxhints.com has dug up an Apple Knowledge Base article that should more or less put our fears to rest: "Even though the red text may give the impression that something is amiss, you can safely ignore the message unless you can't log in. Activity Monitor can display this message even when iChatAgent is responding."

On one hand, I guess this is a good thing; iChat should be working properly for *most* of us. On the other hand: does anyone else find it just a tad lame that Apple is telling us to simply ignore a misbehaving process?
 

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