Built-in ISight Flickers as Being Recognized by OS after 10.5.4

Seems that after resetting the PMU and then resetting the PRAM again seemed to bring the camera back after updating to 10.5.4......for a second. It now seems to flicker every five seconds between being recognized and not being recognized. I really don't think its a hardware issue since it happened right after 10.5.4 installation and other people seem to have the same issue. Additionally, 10.5.4 took out the sound on my Quicktime as well, as it did for other people, but I managed to resolve that issue through these forums. Any ideas....anyone?

The Article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411?viewlocale=en_US does not say what the symptoms of success should be other than if some part of the computer in unresponsive before hand should now work like Charging the battery for instance.
I am sure you have done it right.
Repeatedly doing it is not recommended.
7:00 PM Sunday; July 27, 2008

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180946.289083 VCCapMultiVideoHost
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