In Scott's classic textbook on Group Theory, he asks:
Suppose that $G$ is a finite group. Is the sequence of isomorphism types of the groups $Aut^{(n)}(G)$ for $n \in \mathbb{N}$ eventually periodic?
Here $Aut^{(2)}(G) = Aut(Aut(G))$ etc. Equivalently, is the sequence $|Aut^{(n)}(G)|$ always bounded above?
It apparently remains opens whether the sequence of automorphism types of $Aut^{(n)}(G)$ is in fact always eventually constant. (A wonderful theorem of Wielandt says that if $G$ is a finite centerless group, then the sequence is eventually constant.) So I would like to ask:
Does there exists a finite group such that $Aut(G) \not \cong G$ but $Aut^{(n)}(G) \cong G$ for some $n \geq 2$?
Edit: Joel has pointed out that my question is even open for infinite groups. This sounds like an interesting question which doesn't seem amenable to the cheap tricks in www.math.rutgers.edu/~sthomas/book.ps