PhotoBooth - iMovie Black Boxes

I have seen only a few people mention this problem online, and noone seems to get an answer, though at least one person said that completely reformatting seemed to fix the problem, but this isn't an option for me...
I updated my MacBook Pro (17" Mid-2007) and my Mac Pro (8-Core) both to 10.7, and subsequently to 10.7.2
After update, when I open PhotoBooth on my MBP, the effects "Lovestruck" and "Dizzy" have little black boxes (the alpha channel?) showing around the hearts and birds, likewise any 3rd party effects that mask out sections using an alpha (like the popular package that includes a 'mask' allowing your eyes and mouth in the faces of a gorilla, a clown, and Steve Ballmer (a clownish gorilla) only have black spaces where you should be seeing parts of my face. Also, when I use the 4-up photo effect, the image I see, when Photo Booth doesn't crash, is that of two black boxes, one askew above the other. The thumbnail of the image is correct, though.
I have searched all over, but the only other problem people seem to have with Photo Booth involves it opening in 32-bit mode and no effects showing up. This is not the issue I am having, and the problem is not isolated to PhotoBooth, as iChat also exhibits the same problem when I try to use the effects.
I chose to post this question in the iMovie section to hopefully avoid people telling me to 'uncheck 32-bit', and also because the problem affects certain iMovie themes. The Photo Book theme, for instance, refuses to place a photo or video in the opening of the book. It just stays a black box. Also, if I change any text in any of the other themes, then the text is replaced with plain black boxes, or an extremely generic font.
I don't believe this to be an isolated hardware issue, though it may be a conflict with other software. My MBP did this from day 1 of the 10.7 update, but I assumed it was due to the age of my machine, older/slower graphics and RAM, etc. But I recently got a used 8-core Mac Pro, with the 512MB X1900 graphics card and 14GB of RAM. When it arrived, the first thing I did was install 10.7 and the 10.7.2 update. No problems. Installed Final Cut Studio 3 apps, and also Adobe CS5 Master, and iLife 11. At some point during those installs, I opened Photo Booth and showed my wife the Lovestruck and Dizzy effects, which were working fine, later when I went to show the effects to my children, it looked just like my MBP. I opened iMovie, and it also has the same problem. I do not know which apps I installed after showing the effects to my wife, but I do know that the ONLY additional apps that have been installed on this machine are the ones I mentioned. I installed 10.7.2, FCS3, CS5, iLife '11 - oh, and iStat Menus. That's it. I don't know which of these, if any, could be causing the problem, since my MBP does not have iStat Menus installed, and is running Final Cut Studio 2, and Adobe CS4 - both older versions than I use on the Mac Pro.
My iMac shipped with 10.7 and iLife, and has been updated, but I have been reluctant to install my Adobe or Final Cut packages on it for my wife to use, as it is currently the only machine I have that is still able to use iMovie's themes properly for home videos.

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