No camera with photo booth

iSight Camera works on ichat and imovie but not with photo booth. It also won't work with replacement software for photo booth.
Any ideas?

Hello, BuffaloSky
Quit all running applications. Then, if you have not done so recently, and especially after any recent software updates or installs, repair permissions. Now try Photo Booth again.
If you still have the problem after repairing permissions, try all suggestions relevant to your system from How to Troubleshoot iSight.
If Photo Booth still does not work in any user account, it is possible that a corrupted Photo Booth Preferences file is causing your problem. Quit Photo Booth (and all other applications) and throw away the Photo Booth Preferences file (com.apple.photobooth.plist) from your Home / Library / Preferences folder. A new preferences (.plist) file will be generated when you restart Photo Booth to test whether it works now.
EZ Jim
PowerBook 1.67 GHz w/Mac OS X (10.4.11) G5 DP 1.8 w/Mac OS X (10.5.1)  External iSight

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