IChat 5.0.1 and audio/video icons

Interesting problem I have come across.
I have 3 macs in regular use (home desktop, iMac G5 with NO camera; home laptop MacBook with integrated iSight; and work desktop MacPro with external iSight occasionally plugged in).
In the 3 cases, I get different AV icons (green icons to differentiate audio vs. video and iChat vs. non-iChat, I presume)
1. On the iMac G5, running 10.5.9, I SEE the green AV icons, despite no Camera.
2. On the MacBook 10.6.2, I see the green AV icons with an integrated iSight
3. On the MacPro with 10.6.2, I see AV icons when the iSight is plugged in, but DON'T when it's not.
The dilemma is this - I have used those icons as clues to where my buddies are - no AV icon might mean AIM on the iPhone, single green icon means on the work PC, and triple green icon means at home on the Mac.
Now I can't see the icons at all unless I leave the external iSight plugged in. This seems to be a new feature related to 10.6 (persisted since SL). I've not been able to see this reported elsewhere, or to find a workaround / hack.
Any thoughts about how to get my icons back? Don't say, "Leave the iSight plugged in." I don't have a mounting bracket for it anymore, although I guess I could order one from eBay...

Hi,
I was not trying to brow beat you with info.
I have 3 disk in my tower with two partitions in one and can boot into Jaguar, Panther, Tiger and Leopard on this G4 tower.
I have been using iChat since iChat 2 (Jaguar)
I also have a MacBook Pro running iChat 5.x
iChat has the ability in the Video (Or Audio) menu to turn Off or ON any camera (Camera Enabled item).
With the Camera On (Enabled) the View Menu > Show Video Status comes into Play to show the icons for yourself and your Buddies.
In my experience iUSBCam or it's predecessor iChatUSBCam is the only way iChat can be "Fooled" into thinking there is a camera that is not there via a software means of Streaming the Desktop as a sort of virtual Camera.
It is not supported (does not work) in Snow Leopard as I said earlier.
It is a vague possibility that both com.apple.ichat.plist and com.apple.ichatAgent.plist on the G5 iMac have held onto some info about a camera being attached (both hold part of the Enabled and camera Type info) but these tend to get rewritten on Computer/iChat Start up so it does not seem likely.
Hopefully some of this may help you find out what is going on.
9:54 PM Thursday; January 21, 2010
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