IChat not recognizing my built in iSight

I was video chatting with a friend of mine who was on the same wifi network as me, and all of a sudden the chat ended, and iChat said I can only audio chat. I went into the iChat pref. and it said, "This computer does not support video conferencing." This has never happened before, and I have always video chatted. Also, my "Internet Sharing" is not enabled. The FAQs and support discussions have not helped, and I'm hoping you guys might be able to. Thanks

my iMac 24" just did exactly the same thing yesterday....wednesday i used iChat with video just fine, thursday i installed the new software updates, and friday my imac tells me there is no camera in my computer...i attempted to shut it down and unplug every single cable - wait a few minutes - and plug it all back in....does not help. the ichat doesn't now actually log me off - as soon as i turned the computer on this morning (before the unplug attempt), and now tonight, the jabber bubble is dark in the top tool bar, before i even log in. HELP!!!

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