Isight not working AGAIN?!

I bought my Macbook Pro in Japan in October of 2007. Much later I discovered the isight was not working because I kept receiving the message that photobooth was in use by another application and it would not work on skype or ichat. I had it repaired summer of 2008. About 2 weeks ago I could turn on my mac and hear sounds but the screen was completely black. I took it to the apple store, had it repaired, and it appeared fine. But today I attempt to use skype and my camera is not working. I went to utilities and it does not appear under the usb highspeed bus. Do I really have to take it back to the "geniuses" AGAIN?
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I would say if it's not showing up in your System Profiler, it's probably hardware-related and would need to be looked at again.
Try resetting your SMC first.
Resetting the System Management Controller >>
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