Photo Booth Freezes aftr one pic

Hi,
PB is giving me problems: I open it, it takes one picture, does nothing with the picture - can't find it anywhere, and I've done a finder search for them. The picture does not appear in the lower bar, and it says there are no photos. I cannot then take another picture and have to quit.
I also do not have the new backgrounds at all.
Thanks for the helpt --
Michael

You couldn't find the plist file because you probably spelled PhotoBooth incorrectly. Note the caps for the letters P & B. The file you are looking for: com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
my isight camera is not working-not recognised with photo booth or ichat
If I were in your shoes, I would call Apple before my 90 days of free phone tech support expired. You should not any issues with a 1 day old machine that you need to "troubleshoot' a pre-installed app.
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