Website report: So I finally got the Movable Type templates fleshed out. Woohoo. I have an image-page ready to go, just need to get the content from my Windoze box and cell phone onto the iBook. I've found a new, more secure guestbook. Once I'm done tweaking it, hopefully within a couple days, I'll make it public.
On another note: wow, the OS X AIM client field is pretty crappy. I've used three AIM clients in the week that I've had the iBook, with varying results.
iChat AV, the Apple messenger program which also works with AIM: I've mainly used this program. The GUI is excellent and just about everything is implemented well. The downers are that you can't format away messages--you're stuck with an unbroken line of unformatted text--and that others' away messagees appear in that format within a tooltip box. That's only a minor issue; apart from that, I love iChat.
Adium: This is a multi-service client, supporting several services. This program is also implemented very well. GUI is great. The only downside is that you can't use an AIM profile with it.
AIM: The 'official' OS X AIM client hasn't been updated in two years, and it shows. This program is a steaming hunk of monkey crap. It's easy to tell that, unlike iChat and Adium, it's not a Cocoa program. GUI implementation is spotty; the fonts look like garbage. Because this is a stagnant program (v4.7), it doesn't support many newer features of Windoze AIM, such as invisibility.
Overall, I find Adium and iChat to be very solid programs with minor annoyances. AIM, however, seriously needs an update and a little more attention to detail. I'm probably going to stick with iChat as my client, but I may keep Adium around. One thing is certain: the official AIM package is gone.