Command-W Brings up iChat?

Today for some reason, instead of closing the windows I was in, command-w has started switching me to ichat. This has never happened to me before, and started randomly. any help would be greatly appreciated.

That is odd - for me all it did was shut down Safari!

Command W should close the current window. Maybe you changed the keyboard shortcut.

are you running any application launchers that add keyboard functionality to osx such as quicksilver. Maybe command-w got programmed to launch ichat with out your knowledge.

it only does this when ichat is running, when it isnt it has its normal function of closing the current window