Photo Booth jams and won't quit

Question

Here is the issue:
At first, when running a photo kiosk type application such as Photo Booth or a similar 3rd party app (I also have had FunnyPhotographer installed, which works under Rosetta), it all seems to work fine.
But after a period of time working with other apps, and leaving the Photo Booth running in the background, the it will show a still image only, no longer displaying live information from the webcam. Sometimes it will work ok for quite a long time before this occurs. On other occasions I only launched another app and the display immediately froze up on the photo kiosk program. Eventually it will happen.
Once the Photo Booth displays a frozen image you can still take a snapshot of the image that currently frozen in the display window, but that is all. Live display has ceased, although the green webcam light still shines beside the inbuilt iSight camera.
When you command the app to quit, the beach ball will start rolling, and the app completely freezes.
When you force quit, the app still refuses to quit from the dock and continues to show that it is not responding when you Control-Click on it's Dock icon. This situation occurs regardless of whether you select Force Quit by Control-Clicking on the Dock icon, use Force Quit from the Apple Menu, use Activity Monitor, or even use a Terminal command to kill the process.
When you use Activity Monitor or Terminal, it will manage to remove the process from the processes list, but it will require Force Quitting twice in order to achieve this.
Despite the process no longer showing up in the process list after Force Quitting twice, it still remains locked on the Dock showing "Application Not Responding", and if you close and re-open the Force Quit window from the Apple menu Photo Booth will still be listed there.
Using Force Quit from Activity Monitor, or killing the process via the Terminal does make the green light that indicates that iSight is in use, go out.
Any attempt to re-launch thPhoto Booth in the Finder will give Error -600.
The only ways to get the frozen app back are to logout, or restart the computer (which will require two Force Quit confirmations if you haven't done this already).
Things that have already been done during attempts to resolve this issue:
• Repair disc permissions
• Parameter-RAM zap
• PMU reset
• Complete erase and re-install of Mac OS X, and full Software Update, back to version 10.4.8
• Removal of any System changing 3rd part apps (including: Boot Camp iGlasses, Snapz Pro X (unregistered running in Demo mode), FunnyPhotographer, iClock, CopyPaste X). None of these has had any impact on the issue, so I have reinstalled them since. In any case, this problem has been in existence ever since I have had the computer, long before any non-Apple applications of any kind were installed.
In the face of the above information, AppleCare suggested that this is likely to be a hardware issue, and issued me a case number. The repairers replaced the iSight webcam and logic board, but the problem persists.
Have I found a bug here?
Anyone think they have a solution? What are people's
thoughts on this?
Computer (as per System Profiler Specifications):
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: MacBook
Machine Model: MacBook1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB11.005F.B00
SMC Version: 1.4f10
Serial Number: 4H6259ESU9C
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

Answer 1

Hi Paul,
Some feedback is easier than others.
For instance iChat has it's own page http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html
Photo Booth is one of those few Apple apps that does not have a Feedback page of that sort.
I would ask in Discussions Feedback stating how the problem occurred and how to repeat it. Some one there may be able to point to a better place for a specific feedback.
7:49 PM Tuesday; November 21, 2006