ImovieHD picks up Isight but doesn't know it

I just purchased an Isight camera for the purpose of teleconferencing with Mercury Messenger. Mercury can't find the camera. The Mercury site indicated that if ImovieHD could pick up the camera it should work with their chat software. I launched Imovie and it does pick up the camera (I can see myself in the video window) but I get a message saying "Video capture cannot begin, because a camera cannot be found".
Ichat picks up the camera without difficulty. I have turned everything off and on and unplugged the firewire at both ends and that does not make a difference.
This is the computer I am using:
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: iBook G4
Machine Model: PowerBook6,7
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.33 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.3f0
Serial Number: 4H532ALLSE7
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Version: 1.0
Operating System
Mac OS X 10.4.5
Help would be appreciated (note, I have gone through the discussion already and don't see the same problem reported)

That's the vaguest question I've seen for some time.
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