ISight not connecting cam to cam...

Eversince the big updates around the end of September I cannot cam to cam in my favorite chat rooms on some "private" websites. There was no problem on either Mac before those updates. All other tasks for the iSight work fine, but now I cannot enjoy what I had before these updates.
Anyone have any thoughts on this...
Thanx

Also-
Besides that "Big Updates"...were there amy other changes in your setup?
New router, Airport, ISP change...did you check Mac's firewall settings?
You say: "on either Mac..." -- you mean you have two macs and this (whatever cam-to-cam is) stopped working on both?
Is this a built-in iSight cam?
Chat rooms...you mean iChat AV? Or is this something different?
Have you tried the forums specific for iSight/iChat for anyone who might be experienceing your same problem?
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=802
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=139

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TK-60 wrote:
On iMovie, Photobooth and iChat my in-built iSight seems to not be connected.
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