Built in isight 'not connected' or 'being used by other app'

i just bought a macbook pro (os x 10.4.5; 1.83 ghz; upgraded to 1gig ram) yesterday, and when i attempted to open Photobooth to take a pic with the built in isight camera, an error came up saying, "Photobooth cannot open because either no camera is attached or the camera is in use by another application." i literally took the machine out of the box, went through some of the setup, then shut it down again...did i do something wrong??

it ended up being a hardware defect, so apple kindly replaced my system with no hassles! thanks apple!!

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