IMovie HD and Isight recording

Hello All,
We currently have 70 iMacs which are authenticating through windows. I have struck a problem where students and staff cannot record with the ISight in Imovie HD. When the user has created the movie in a shared drive which has plenty of storage it just does nothing when the users click record with iSight. It seems to be working for some users and not the some not.
I have done the following
Made sure that there was enough space on the drive. The answer is yes 150 gig free.
We also moved a working Plist to the users libary/preference folder. Still the same problem.
The problem seems to be very random as with some users it will work one day and the next it will not.
If you have a solution you would make me and the member of staff very happy.
Kind Regards,
Ross

First, to use the built-in iSight included with some Macintosh models, use iMovie HD 6 or later.
If you're using an iSight camera and can't get iMovie to recognize it, go to iChat's “Video” preferences, disable the option to “Automatically open iChat when camera is turned on,” then quit iChat. The “Import” button in iMovie changes to “Record with iSight.”
Aso, read this (scroll down to iSight with imovie)
iMovie: Cannot see or control camera
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43000
Importing from an iSight camera or other webcam
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304158#two
:)Sue

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