IChat AV effects won't stop

I am running iChat AV 4.05 on a Titanium powerbook, OS 10.5.5. My video camera is linked by firewire. When I have a video chat, everything works well EXCEPT that iChat runs its effects, one after another, and sometimes drops in a random background. I can't find a command to turn this off and the "show video effects" command is greyed out. I've searched here but not found any answer to this, please forgive if this is an old issue.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Phoebe

I spoke too soon. Now the picture is "shaking its head" from side to side, then grey screen, then black screen, now bouncing, black and white, grainy fade-in, curtains opening, pixelated fade-out.....
showing me all its stuff. My understanding is that since I have a powerpc and no Photobooth I shouldn't even have access to the effects! What gives?

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