Built in camera no longer recognized..

Just installed new hard drive, installed Leopard, iLife and iWork 09 and now my built in camera is no longer being recognized by iChat and other applications... Any advice?

Let's start by resetting the SMC as described in [this Apple kbase article|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411].
Best of luck.

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