Built in iSight on Intel iMac

I was wondering if somebody can please help me? Everytime I try to open Photo Booth but it says that it can't be opened because no camera is attached or it is being used by another program, but I don't have any programs that are using the camera. The little green that comes on when it in use is constantly on. Please help.

You might get an answer quicker by going here.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=802
I don't know what else to tell you sorry.

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