Isight camera "not connected" but IS in USB configuration

My iSight [BUILT-IN] camera keeps being reported as "There is no camera connected" in 'Photo Booth', though it Does show up in the USB configuration of System Profiler, and most times still functions OK using Google Video Chat. (for the first 'known' time, it did not work for Google this past week)
So far, resetting the SMC has corrected the problem, but only for a few hours.
Is there a COMMAND I can give the MacBook to do what the SMC "fixes"?
Why is it being controlled by "System Preferences - Other - Flash Player"   instead of "Hardware"?? It seems that I Can Not just set it to "Block" because this also asks if I want Google Mail to be "allowed", which is my video chat method.
There are NO other users (a TEST account is set up for when I sent it to Apple last year, but that is Not Used); I simply would like to sometimes run Photo Booth to image the room or do a new profile pic, but this Constant Problem stops that.
System is Snow Lepard 10.6.8, all updates installed as of June 2012
USB High-Speed Bus:
Host Controller Location:          Built-in USB
Host Controller Driver:          AppleUSBEHCI
PCI Device ID:          0x2836
PCI Revision ID:          0x0003
PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
Bus Number:          0xfd
Built-in iSight:
Product ID:          0x8501
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version:           1.89
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Micron
Location ID:          0xfd400000 / 2
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          100

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2411 "Your camera is in use by another application" message
my isight camera is not working-not recognized with photo booth or ichat
1. Click on Macintosh HD on the top right of your desktop (or whatever else you’ve called your Harddrive) 2. Click through System > Library > LaunchDaemons 3. Now look for the file com.apple.cmio.VDCAssistant.plist - and send it to trash. http://www.appleware.co.uk/2008/12/03/isight-camera-fix.html
Also, check out EZJim's Website.

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