Crazy iChat & AIM

So today I've run into an issue that I guess isn't entirely too common... my buddy list in iChat is totally gone. You'd think it wouldn't be a big problem since Apple backs up all of your buddies in Address Book. However, I can't even add people to my buddy list... whether they were there before or not. It's telling me that I'm connected... but other than that I can't do anything.

So when I ran into this problem I started hunting around the web to see if others had encountered this issue as well. Originally I thought it was an Apple problem cause I had just downloaded an update last night and turned off both of my computers... then this morning is when the problems started. However, I also found out that people using AIM have experienced this as well. So it must be a bug on AIM's side of things. I'm guessing it is a server issue and AIM basically loses all of your info.

Anybody else ever have this problem? Is there a fix that you know of? Any advice would be great!