Isight + Tiger No longer works

Since I have upgraded to Tiger my Isight no longer works. I can start a chat but after about 10 to 40 seconds it disconnects me. I have taken it in for repair and they all tell me it is fine. If I go to preferences, video, I can see myself, I also have the following which I never had before:
Microphone - Isight built in
Band with - None
I have played with these options but I still get disconnected. I used to have an option Camera - Isight I no longer have that option but I still see myself.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? So far I'm stumped and even the repair person can't figure it out.
Thanks,
Alice

Hello Alice.
Try the suggestions in Help for iChat AV 3 Problems.
EZ Jim

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Details and steps taken: newly-arrived black macbook April 2008 with 10.5 factory installed.
1. Booted 10.5, ran all updates, including the keyboard-firmware update, fixed perms, and verified boot disk.
2. Using 10.5 disk-util, did non-destructive resize of 10.5 partition from entire drive (120gig) down to 76gig. Created 2 new partitions: tiger (50gig), and TimeMach (22gig). After reboot leopard is running find from resized partition, and I zeroed-out the other (Erase, writing zeroes in 10.5-disk-util).
3. Booted new macbook in target mode. From another black mac-book running 10.4.11 with ALL updates, ran CCC-3.1 to copy tiger to empty tiger partition on new mb.
4. Booted new mb, holding down option, and selected tiger partition. Everything works in Tiger as far as I can tell except I can't adjust brightness.)
Go figure.

Isight + Tiger No longer works

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