Photobooth only shows a black screen

I have a friend with a new core duo, his photobooth was working fine and then stopped showing only a black screen.
It will snap a photo but the photo is black.
The camera works fine in ichat.
I deleted photobooth and reinstalled from the install DVD he got from apple.
BTW it’s very nice that they allow a single app install from this DVD set

regular maintenance (permissions repair and disc verification) didn’t help and neither did deleting and re-installing the app and the plists
Maybe a cache clearing is in order.
Otherwise what apple tech suggested is an archive and re-install, something I'd rather not do if we don’t have to.
Has anyone solved this yet?
I’ve read the other posts and no solution other than the above but I haven’t seen anyone say that they got it to work.

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