Conflict with Photo Booth and connecting camera

This is my first time posting on the discussions. I work in a commercial photography studio and we are trying connect one of our cameras to the new Macbook Pro. Photo booth keeps opening up and we get the messages that the camera is connecting and then disconnecting. We, as well as the camera rep, are at a loss. Is there some way to turn photo booth off?
Any help would be great!
Thanks

Well, we plugged the camera into a 17" Powerbook and it works fine. Still no progress on the Macbook Pro. I believe it is the manufacter's software. Photobooth is not bugging out now, but we still get the "Connecting" then "Disconnecting" messages, one after another.
I guess this was to be expected since this is the first time this camera has ever been plugged into the intel Macs with this new version of the software. We are kind of the guinia pigs.
Thanks anyways.
imac g5, powerbook g4, macbook pro   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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