Did digital camera screw up iSight?

I was helping my friend attach her new digital camera to her Mac (used the USB port on the keyboard of her iMacG5), and while we successfully opened and downloaded into iPhoto, her PhotoBooth and iChat no longer showed a camera available.
We unplugged the digital camera, but continued to receive the message: installed camera is in use in another application (or something like that). We restarted, no change; shut down, no change.
What do you think happened, and how can we fix it? And I promise not to play tech support anymore.
Thanks!

Hello Elaine Soloway
Did you friend eject (click once on the camera's memory card icon on the desktop to select it and use the Finder > File > Eject menu command) before disconnecting? Not doing so can cause various problems, including ones like hers.
Restarting her Mac should have fixed the problem. Try it again with her digital camera disconnected. If the problem is still there, she should try all suggestions relevant to her system from Apple's How to Troubleshoot iSight.
Please let us know how it goes.
Cheers,
EZ Jim
PowerBook 1.67 GHz w/Mac OS X (10.4.11) G5 DP 1.8 w/Mac OS X (10.5.2) External iSight

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