ISight won't work for other user

My wife and I have seperate user IDs on the same machine. For me the isight works perfectly with ichatAV and with iMovie. But for my wife though the camera works fine with iMovie only the sound will work with ichat. She gets the message "your camera is being used by another app" even when she's just booted it up with no start up apps. We both have admin rights. can anyone help?

Hi Keith:
This may help: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93216

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I've found it!
groups run under user gave just gids of groups, whilst under root it gave proper names. so i took look at /etc/group and here is the problem :shock:
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thanks Gandalf, you've helped to save the Middleearth again .
ota

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