External Camera not functioning correctly

It looks like there's some sort of conflict going on between the way photobooth is running and the way an external camera operates. I have a logitech C910 as I primarily run my macbook pro closed and docked. Upon installing Lion when trying to use photobooth the camera was severely lagged, by about a minute, and would then freeze for nearly that long before accelerating the feed to catch back up, all to do it over again.
This also made video chat in skype completely useless as it would not only cause my outbound feed to lag, but would screw with the inbound feed. I found another discussion talking about face tracking not working, and to check if it was running in 32 bit mode, if so to uncheck that box. What I found in this case was checking the box made the camera function like before.
I'm not 100% on why a setting in photobooth would affect skype like that, but I guess it's just applying those settings to camera functionality over all. So if anyone else is having this sort of trouble with a third party camera, try doing a get info on photobooth and checking 32 bit mode.

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