Help with Leopard's Firewall

I'm trying to be as security-conscious as possible, so I've enabled the firewall in Leopard and set it to "Set access for specific services...". The first time I opened up Adium after I ran it, it prompted me to allow it to accept incoming connections and I hit Allow.

I have Adium set to open at login. When I restart my MBP and log in, I get the following message when Adium starts:

Do you want the application "Adium.app" to accept incoming network connections?

...and I hit Allow. I don't understand why it keeps asking me. Once I've answered that question, if I close and re-open the program it will not bug me about the firewall question. But if I restart it prompts me. I think this issue is happening with another program or two, but I can't remember what those apps are. Any idea why this is happening?

 

Is Adium in the list when you go to System Prefs>Security>Firewall? If it isn't, add it with the + button.

 

Yup, Adium is already in the firewall list.

 

I'm having the same issue with Azureus. Kind of annoying, but it's just one click so I can deal with it.

 

Reading about this a bit, I think the issue has to do with digital signing. From Apple Article#306938 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306938:

So maybe, the apps are modified in some way for whatever reason. Just a thought.

 

No problems here with adium. Only time it will re-ask me to allow is if the program in question has changed versions or whatever. Like when adium auto-updates it will re-ask because the program's digital finger print has changed.