Photo Booth Not Opening for iSight

I just got my Macbook. Photobooth will not open, nor will Preview. I haven't tried a few other programs (Comic Life, etc.), but I'm mainly concerned about Photo Booth and Preview. I wanna see my **** pdf's and take pictures with my iSight :c
The camera is not the problem; it works fine in iChat and iMovie. Help :c

Hi Wiggle-head,
Ummm, Odd.
Some Apple apps need to have certain Fonts active, mainly Helvetica, or they will not run properly.
I doubt you have installed any Fonts yet and iChat is one that would show this.
I would pop the Install Disk in and navigate to Option Installs and see if Preview and Photo Booth are ones you can do from there.
If so reinstall them from that option.
9:42 PM Saturday; June 2, 2007

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