Facetime Camera not working - Installed 10.8.5 Supplemental Update

So I cheerfully installed the supplemental update for Mountain Lion 10.8.5 tonight and it did not fix my camera issue with Skype. In fact, my Facetime camera, which was working fine with Facetime & Photobooth, stopped working with any software after this update. Before this update came, I did change the plug in back to the pre-10.8.5 update camera plug in, which made it work fine again. I thought installing this update would fix it but it didn't. I ended up changing the plug back to the pre-10.8.5 plug in again and now everything works fine. Any suggestions as to why this is the case?
And I'm using a mid-2013 Macbook Air. 4g Ram/256bg Hard Drive

Unfortunately this is not working for my MacBookAir6,2.
10.8.5 broke the camera for everything but FaceTime.
I installed 10.8.5 supplemental; that broke the camera completely.
Installed 10.8.5 combo, and FaceTime works again, but Skype and Gmail are still broken.
I tried copying the AppleCamera.plugin as noted on the Skype site, but that doesn't fix Skype or Gmail.
Ideas?

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geoffreysong wrote: ... I am afraid it's something I installed that's causing the problem...
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Hei
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