ISight crashes both Photo booth and iChat

Hello,
My iSight camera seems to be causing issues with Photo Booth and iChat. Both these problems emerged at the same time, so I believe that they're related.
iChat will login properly, but when I try to initiate video chat, the green iSight camera turns on... but promptly crashes iChat.
Photo booth ostensibly works fine in terms of taking regular photos and video recording, but none of the effects work; they appear as black screens. When you try and click on the effects, Photo booth crashes.
My computer otherwise recognizes the camera in System Profiler. I can also use the camera in GChat, via Gmail.
Any ideas on what's wrong?

Welcome to Discussions, bigtsez
The PMU reset suggested in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 usually helps such problems for MacBooks.
If not, repair permissions and apply the 10.5.7 COMBO update:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_7_ComboUpdate
Repair permissions IMMEDIATELY again after the restart that finishes the installation.
Then test iSight again. Repeat the Troubleshooting suggestions if necessary.
EZ Jim
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