Built-in iSight trouble, think it's Boot Camp/Firmware related.

Lately my iSight has been having issues. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Until recently I didn't couldn't figure out what might be causing it but I now have ideas.
First, symptoms. When I attempt to use my iSight with either iChat or Quicktime, the window which would normally display what my camera sees is black. If I use PhotoBooth it is green. Normally I'd attribute this to another application using my cam but nothing is and I'm not getting a warning about it.
If I reset my MacBook Pro's SMC and restart it sometimes gets it to start working again. Though what seems to be the deal is restarting a few times is a sure way to make it behave.
Now, I run both Parallels and Boot Camp on my laptop and I thought one of those might be the issue. Once I had the cam working again in iChat, Quicktime and PhotoBooth I started up Parallels, fiddled a bit and shut it off then started up iChat. No problems, so I shut it down and booted up into Windows via Boot Camp, fiddled some more and restarted into OS X. After opening iChat I noticed the cam wasn't working once more.
So That pretty much has the main problem isolated. Since it's a Boot Camp issue I figured it might be firmware related since I couldn't think of anything else. I went to Apple's support page to grab the lastest firmware and found this article Listing the firmware I needed as...
Boot ROM ver.: MBP22.00A5.B00
SMC ver.: 1.12f5
...And I have...
Boot ROM ver.: MBP22.00A5.B01
SMC ver.: 1.12f5
...And if the first one is the latest firmware, why does mine appear to be the next version? If I'm backwards on how the numbering should go why isn't anything coming up with software update? Further more, what confused me is I found this SMC firmware update for my MacBook Pro that will put me to SMC firmware version 1.12f10, which also seems to be a later version than listed.
So what I want to know is what should the latest version of firmware for my machine be, where can I get it and, most importantly, is this what is causing the problems with Boot Camp and my iSight?

I've been looking around the web for a while now trying to figure out what the problem is and I now have new symptoms to report.
When I boot up in Safe Mode and try to open Photo Booth it says another program is using my iSight. Now, I know that's not true because I just started up OS X and I haven't started any other programs... I had also just reset my SMC so I don't see how anything is carrying over.
So what I'm now wondering is whether or not there is a way to find out exactly what is using my iSight at any given time? Either via some app (preferred) or if someone has a Terminal script I can copy and paste that will tell me. I can always just flat-out format my computer and try that but I'd rather not since that would take me a little bit to reinstall and update all my apps again. I know that's the final step to try before I bring it to Apple for them to check it out but I don't want to go that far yet.

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