Built-In isight not showing picture

**Please Help!**
I have a built-in isight camera that is not working at the moment. I have tried everything that apple tells you about troubleshooting isight, created new account, repair permissions, empty caches, but nothing worked. Could not find isight preferences to delete.
When I open, say PhotoBooth, Skype, ichat, my camera turns on (LED green light is on) but no picture is showing up. Do not know if there us a setting that turns the image off and i might have somehow or what. It was working one day and the next nothing.
Does anyone have any solutions for this problem?

Ok, so i found the answer by calling apple support.
They told me to
1. Shut off the computer.
2. Turn on the computer.
3. RIGHT AFTER you turn on the computer, simeltaneously hold down the command, option, 'p', and 'r' keys. This will reset the computer. You want to reset your computer two times, for a total of three start-ups (or three biiiiings that you hear at the start of the computer.) DO NOT LET GO OF THE KEYS UNTIL the third biiiing (or startup sound)!
Once you hear that third biiiiing, just let the computer do its normal startup cycle. This process resets the perimeter RAM, which is used by applications such as safari and ichat.
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