Address Book Hanging When Choosing Custom Image

Address Book app in Tiger (10.4.6) hangs whenever any attempts to change the default image of the contact is done. The console displays the following message (multiple lines with same message):
CDeviceList::CDeviceList: Found 0 devices.
It seems that it only stops when it finally turns on the isight camera. It takes a relatively long time to do that. After the camera is found, any interaction with the Address Book interface will trigger the hang and the message in the console.
Any ideas? Thanks.
RB
Power Mac G5 2.5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.6) Nothing hooked to mac except kensington keyboard and apple mighty mouse.

I never could figure out how to do this via the GUI and had to resort to a bit of "trickery". i.e.:
- quit the Address Book application.
- in Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences and double click
on com.apple.AddressBook.plist ( or just type
"open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
in a Terminal window
- in the property list editor, delete the value for
"ABImagePath" , which is under "0" in "ABCustomEnvelopeDefinitions"
- save the file
- quit the Property List Editor
- start Address Book
/cj
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