Quoting Clay Fandre (clay at fandre.com):
> That should work since jabber uses a single connection for everything. What problems are you having? Add the -v option to ssh to get more info. Are you sure that's the correct port?
> 
> BTW, you can use -N option to just forward ports.
> 
>  -N      Do not execute a remote command.  This is useful if you just want
>              to forward ports (protocol version 2 only).

Interesting with the -N I get a core dump ala Bug Buddy. Debug input follows:

debug1: Connection to port 5222 forwarding to jabber.org port 5222 requested.
debug1: fd 8 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: fd 8 IS O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]
debug1: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 32768 rmax 16384
debug1: channel 2: rcvd eof
debug1: channel 2: output open -> drain
debug1: channel 2: obuf empty
debug1: channel 2: output drain -> closed
debug1: channel 2: close_write

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