ISight Mysteriously Came to Life but its Dead Again

I have a MacBook that is now about three weeks old. The ISIght has never worked and usually I get no green light and all programs that use it say thewre is no camera attached. I have spoken to Tech Support who went thorugh all the possible fixes (resetting PRAM, etc) and nothing works and told me I will have to return the unit for service (I couldn't exchange it because I bought it one the road.)
I was planning to do so some time soon but last night, after installing Parallels and fooling around with a USB scanner in XP, I noticed that the ISight was listed in the USB device tree under Parallels and sure enought the camera was working fine and I was able to take photos.
Today, it is gone again like before. Anybody have any ideas
?

This may be just a voodoo response, but it worked for me. Apparently, iSight is controlled by the extension /System/Library/Extensions/Apple_iSight.kext. My iSight wasn't working today (although, weirdly, the green light was on), so I removed the file Apple_iSight.kext from the Extensions folder (which required my first giving myself the appropriate permission to read and write to it) and stuck the file onto my desktop. Then I rebooted the MacBook. Then I tried to open an iSight application, which, naturally didn't work (although the green light was still on). Then I put Apple_iSight.kext back into the Extensions folder and rebooted. Surprise! The green light was now off! I opened up Photo Booth and Quicktime and iSight was working perfectly, as if nothing had ever happened!
Go figure!
macbook, ibook, powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
macbook, ibook, powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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