Frame Rate drops to 1FPS after 30 seconds

Recently my iChat has begun to behave strangely. I can initiate and respond to iChat video chats and my frame rate starts off a healthy 15 fps and the bit rate is about what I'd expect (300+) but then both fall off sharply over the first 30 seconds and bottom out at 1fps and around 60 kbits. I can see my buddy at 15fps and sound and video are green at 100%.
I don't know if it's related but Spotlight has stopped working too and I can't fix that.
I've trawled the web and tried many things but can't find the answer. I hope somebody can help.
15" PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) iSight Camera

Hi Paul the Artist,
One thing first.
iSight does not like to be daisychained. This can even be a problem if it is ganged ports on the computer going to the same Firewire Controller.
The Spotlight problem may be Indexing linked as you say.
Open the Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities
Make sure the Drop Down at the top reads All Processes
Now the lower section (no icons) should be system stuff below the icon for the DOCK.
Above that are the newer Apps and newer things running (some without icons owned by Root and some by "you"
I can not remember the exact name but it will be one owned by you but with no icon and called something like mdimport
You will need to see if it implies or states it is Not responding OR shows lots of CPU usage.
If the indexing is finished it should say it has no CPU usage.
Force Quit it if required via the big red Quit icon to left.
8:21 PM Friday; May 18, 2007

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