[nycdunz]

is there a way we can back up our address book and ichat settings, like all the user icons and how the ichat user matches to the addressbook? im sick of having to re-enter all this info in everytime i upgrade or re install the OS, i have all my users on my ichat all organized and set a pre defined buddyicon for each of em and they correspond to the ppl in my address book, i wish tehere was a feature where you can backup your settings and reimport them back into ichat and it will automatically update it like you have it in the previous settings, isthere anyway to do this? please help

[:XI:]

Address Book database is:
~/library/addresses/Address Book.addressbook

The iChat icons appear to be in:
~/library/caches/com.apple.ichat.pictures

The preferences for each are:
~/library/preferences/com.apple.addressbook.plist
~/library/preferences/com.apple.ichat.*.plist (you might want them all, since i don't know which does what.)

*where ~ is your home folder.