Built in iSight issue with Vonage softphone?

I'm not certain if this is similar to the post by
Francisco Viana but I've lost my built in iSight too,
and as far as I can tell started after having loaded
Vonage's softphone which has a known issue with the
Intell processor in MacBook.
I'll remove softphone from my MacBook but is there
any way to tell if this is the culprit otherwise?
John
Removed softphone, then tried to see if I could find the driver in extensions, couldn't so then ran a test and got this:
090154.054092 Loading hardware rules from hardwarerulesH264-G4.plist
090154.054195 Checking H264 hardware rules
090154.054244 Satisfied rule #1 (20:640x480)
090154.054515 setLocalUserName: John [email protected]
090154.091405 Default video size is (640x480)
090154.102408 ### NEW STATE: to: VC_INIT, from: VC_INVALID
090154.103163 ### NEW STATE: to: VC_IDLE, from: VC_INIT
090154.103258 ++++++++ confStatusMapRemoveAll
090154.103311 ( ) -- mapUserIDToSecurityInfo cleared --
090154.103553 UPnP init passed
090154.103779 NATTraversal created
090154.103916 QT automatic setting = 16777216
090154.103932 Bandwidth based on QT prefs = 0
090154.108016 BWD: GotBandwidth: 481403/1335882 (up/down) @[192.168.0.2:255.255.255.0]
090154.108088 BWD bandwidth: 481 kbits up, 1335 kbits down.
090154.108130 videoNetworkCapable: 1 -- 3 max participants.
090154.108164 audioNetworkCapable: 1 -- 9 max participants.
090154.108230 vcCapabilities returns: 0x0000003f
090154.108273 VCCapAudio
090154.108308 VCCapVideo
090154.108349 VCCapMultiAudio
090154.108378 VCCapMultiVideo
090154.108407 VCCapMultiAudioHost
090154.108446 VCCapMultiVideoHost
090154.164494 Found 0 cameras:
090154.164828 Found 0 cameras:
090154.164879 selectCamera: returned 0
090154.178749 Microphone devices:
090154.179078 Internal microphone
090154.179182 Line In
090154.179266 Selected mic: Built-in Microphone / imic
090154.179404 Found 0 cameras:
090154.179506 Found 0 cameras:
090154.179543 selectCamera: returned 0
090154.181861 Microphone devices:
090154.181962 Internal microphone
090154.182056 Line In
090154.182116 Selected mic: Built-in Microphone / imic
090154.185927 Found 0 cameras:
090154.186151 Found 0 cameras:
090154.186193 selectCamera: returned 0
090154.189079 Microphone devices:
090154.189190 Internal microphone
090154.189347 Line In
090154.189418 Selected mic: Built-in Microphone / imic
090154.352672 UPnP Router Info:
- manufacturer []
- friendly name [Residential Gateway]
- model name [Residential Gateway]
- model desc [Residential Gateway]
090154.353258 UPnP: Begin TCPProc
090154.507120 UPnP: TCPProc begin loop
090155.568456 Found 0 cameras:
090155.568727 Found 0 cameras:
090155.568827 selectCamera: returned 0
090155.571801 Microphone devices:
090155.571954 Internal microphone
090155.572178 Line In
090155.572252 Selected mic: Built-in Microphone / imic

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