I think IgAnand just sits around waiting for keenan to post...
I would positive rep you to give that threat a little more credit, but then no one else would have the joy of realizing how empty a threat it in fact is
This is from memory... but on the sign-on screen, click setup, then click the auto-configure or auto-detect button. This will try a number of ports until it finds one that it can connect through.
AIM is impervious to firewalls and can connect on any TCP port.