Photo Booth acting weird/iSight goes black in Skype

When I open Photo Booth and if I don't take a picture for a few minutes, it creates a still image and I can't get out of it.. If I try to take a picture, the still image shows up in the tray no matter what. The image doesn't go away until I close Photo Booth and reopen it, but it does it again and again.
Also, in Skype when I'm in a video chat with someone, every few seconds, my webcam goes black for a few seconds and then returns to normal, but it keeps doing that.

Some things you can try in any order you like:
(1) If you can make a video but it does not play back correctly when you click the black one in the Photo Booth tray, try restarting Mac and test again.
(2) Restart Mac.  Then use your MBP's Disk Utility to repair permissions.
(3) Restart Mac.  Then use your MBP's Disk Utility to verify the disk.  If DU says you need to repair your disk, you can use Lion Recovery's Disk Utility to repair your boot (startup) disk.
(4) If you have not already done so, use the http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 suggestions to verify that this is not a user-specific issue.  Don't use a "Guest" account for this test.  If your Mac only has one account, create a new user account for testing.
Also test more than one app and more than one user generated backdrop.
(5) It the problem is specific ONLY to one particular user-generated backdrop in EVERY user account you test. the backdrop may have been damaged somehow. 
In such case, I would delete the user-generated backdrop and replace it with the version from the original or a known-working backup.  If you did not keep the original you used to create the problem backdrop, and if you have no working backup, recreate it.
Note: if someone suggests that you reset your Photo Booth preferences, understand that doing so will delete all your user-generated backdrops.  You will need to add them back to Photo Booth in order to use then.  Therefore, if you have concerns about the item (5) suggestion to replace your user-generated backdrop, be aware that resetting Photo Booth preferences may result in the same concern.
Message was edited by: EZ Jim
Mac OSX 10.7.3

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