Internal Microphone No Longer Recognized.

I used to be on Skype all the time with no problems, but I got on tonight to talk with some friends and my mic wasn't working. Checked the sound input and the option for the internal microphone was gone. I tried calibrating it under System Preferences > Speech but there wasn't even an option to calibrate the internal mic. What do I do?
(I have OS X 10.6.8)

My camera and mic work fine. When I installed Win7 I did not do a clean install. I just upgraded from the Vista 64 installation that came preinstalled. I've been pleasantly suprised to find that everything works beautifully. Actually better than it did in Vista. Maybe try restoring your Vista installation (if possible, I haven't tried the onekey restore feature) and then install Win7 as an upgrade.
This is just a suggestion - I have not tested this!

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