IChat not playing ball

Was given a splendid new iSight as a present and am trying to set it up but iChat is crashing every time I start it and/or when I connect the FireWire cable to the camera itself. iChat stays open for less than three seconds.
Irritating is an understatement. Any ideas, thoughts, help would be appreciated.
ML

HI gwenkins,
There are several things with this. Most will be solved with a reinstall as I said in your other post.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2484161#2484161
The Broken Pipe message almost certainly means one of the support folders is at odds with success.
There are a couple of other things.
1) Is this computer still using Quicktime 6 ?
Go to System Preferences > Quicktime > Register tab and use the About button.
This wouls explain the Hardwarerules H263 listing.
2) If it is Quicktime 6 go to the Connection speed tab
change the setting to match your download speed rather than the dail-up modem speed of 28.8k speed it is at the moment.
If it is Quicktiem 7.x then the tab is called Streaming but has the same drop down after that.
If you have Quicktime 7.x then there would appear to be a problem with it as it should read H264 at the top of the log for the Hardwarerule check.
This may also need resinstalling.
It may pay to redo the 10.3.9 combo install to get the system as clean and up together as it can be.
Also look at this FAQ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122021 to sort out running the Cron scripts as well.
12:17 AM Wednesday; June 7, 2006

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