Internal webcam not working

My internal iMac webcam is not responding. I tried to open Photo Booth, it gave me the standard "another program may have it in use". I shut down all applications, tried it again. Didn't work. Restarted. This time when I tried to open photo booth, it would pop open for a second but then gave me the "application unexpectedly quit" message. I tried iChat, works fine until you try to engage the camera. Can't even get to the video preferences tab iChat. causes the application to quit running.
Any help? That's about the extent of my troubleshooting abilities. LOL.
I also checked to make sure I had the most current software updates from apple and I do.

Hi leckiest
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
First have a look at the Built-in iSight section of the How to Troubleshoot iSight article below:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93240
It sounds like you have worked thru most of item # 1 except for checking iMovie HD to see if the iSight is in use there?
Work thru item's 2, 3, and 4 resetting the SMC article below:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303446
Sometimes other connect devices such as another camera, card-reader or scanner can also affect the function of the iSight.
Dennis

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