Photo Booth Fade to Black

Started Photo Booth tonight and it flashed up ok for about 2 seconds before starting to fade REALLy fast into blackness.
Restarted photo booth - same thing.
Restarted iMac - same thing
Checked Forums, which suggested deleting pref file, did that - same thing
Installed new version of Photo Booth - same thing
The only thing i have done different recently is up date to OS X version 10.4.10 (latest release), does any one else have this problem?
Can anyone here help out a really frustrated Mac user?
...please!

Well, I have updated to 10.4.10 and then the latest security update after that, and my Photo Booth is still behaving normally, so the problems you are having are not due to 10.4.10 by itself.
Just tried iMovie too and it appears OK.
Here's an update! On the "Using your Intel iMac" forum there is a thread about the same problem. One person fixed his own instance of this by unplugging the Mac for a minute or so (SMC reset, I believe.)

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