IChat freezes when Video is accessed

I have an iSight and an iBot Pro, and I am trying to run them on a G4 PowerPC (dual 1.42) and a G4 PowerBook, both running 10.4.8. I am trying to run skype or iChat video on both computers with either camera. Every possible combination of camera and application works very well on the PowerBook. If a camera is not attached to the PowerPC, iChat and skype work great. If I attach a camera and try to access preferences->video, I get the spinning lollipop and need to force quit; this happens with either camera.
One difference between the PB and PowerPC was that the PowerPC, for the longest time, has squawked at me about the IOXperts driver needing to be paid for and only allowing me 30 minutes of time: I wasn't seeing video, but it still squawked at me. I felt I didn't need it (especially since I'm paying per camera), so I nuked it (following some instructions on the IOXpert web page), assuming there was some native driver for the iSight in the PowerPC (since the laptop doesn't have an IOXperts driver).
I tried Ralph's terminal invocation of iChat with the errorLogLevel 7 flag set, but as soon as I touched preferences->video, that froze as well.
I get the impression I've mucked about a bit too much and may have broken something. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to set things right? Do I need the IOXpert driver after all?
Thanks,
Roland
Powerbook G4 1.25 GHz, PowerPC G4 Dual 1.42 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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