Isight green light keeping coming on

hi i bought a macbook (white) and recently the green light by the isight keeps coming on its really annoying i dont really use photobooth or any other application/programme which requires the camera and dont download any widgets so why is this happening the only way to turn it off is to shutdown and take battery out and hold power button but this not a permanenet solution because the problem persists after a couple of days
i know other macbook users experience the same problems as well....
are there any permanent solutions or should i just take it back to apple?

Welcome to Discussions, Twilighter17
are there any permanent solutions or should i just take it back to apple?
Try EVERY relevant suggestions from Apple's TroubleShooting suggestions at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
If the none of the relevant suggestions there give you a "permanent" solution, the "take it back to apple" solution is necessary:
If your built-in iSight camera is still not behaving correctly after trying all these steps, you may need to contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service.
EZ Jim
G5 DP 1.8GHz w/Mac OS X (10.5.7) PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11) iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9) External iSight

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