No sound in photobooth or imovie!?

I just tried recording a video using photobooth and when i played it back the sound didn't work. It has definitely worked before and i tried it again and it didn't work so it's not random there must be something wrong with it. I looked online to see if anyone else had had this problem and most people said to see if imovie didn't work either and it won't record sound either, and i looked at sound in system preferences to see if the sound was off or something but it's not. My speakers do work though because playing music on itunes works. It's reallllllllllllllly frustrating so if any-one knows how i can fix this then that would be greatly appreciated.

A few suggestions:
Repair permissions & restart.
Check your settings in the Audio Midi app which is located in the Utilities folder.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832 Mac OS X: No audio from certain multimedia content
Trick/Tip: Open up GarageBand if installed then, open a program (optional).
Quit out of the GarageBand app.

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