Isight not working in photo booth after Leopard install

After installing Leopard, isight doesn't work when opening photobooth. I get a grey screen and nothing more. The green light isn't illimuniated. When clicking on the "take a photo" button, the countdown occurs and photobooth goes through the photo taking motions, even making the noises, but nothing shows up and I am unable to click the "take a photo" button again with closing and reopening photobooth. When in imovie, isight works fine. isight also shows up in my system profiler. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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