Preview Signature Capture Not Working

Having no luck getting the signature capture to work in Preview. I go through the appropriate steps, hold up my signature to the iSight camera, get a perfectly wonderful looking capture, click Accept, go back into my document, click on the icon and it acts is if no signature has been captured. Go to manage signatures and none are there. Even better, it keeps the indicator light on my iSight camera from turning off - even when I close out of Preview. Only solution I've found for getting the indicator light to quit is to restart the computer ( i5 MacBook Air). Have tried several different PDFs and all the same result.
Any thoughts? Running lates version of Lion (10.7.1). Obviously not the end of the world, but would definitely come in handy. Thanks.

Eytan Bernet1 wrote:
Go to ~/library/preferences
delete all the preview preferences while preview is quit.
Relaunch Preview, and it should be fixed.
This was close to the solution. I ended up needing to delete ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview to ultimately fix the problem. Within the container was a separate set of preferences for Preview.app which were not aliased or symlinked to the set in ~/Library/Preferences.

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