Plugging in iSight causes Catasrophic Crashes

When I plug in iSight, it causes just about all open programs to crash and the only way out is a hard restart.
I have no scientific reason to suspect it, but I do suspect my PreSonus Inspire sound card or its driver. Has anyone come across an incompatibility issue with something like this? Of course, I may be barking up the wrong tree with that.

Hi,
Sounds like a very good tree to me.
You say "Card"
I found http://www.presonus.com/products/Detail.aspx?ProductId=7 which seems to be an external Firewire device.
How are you connected up to these two ?
The Firewire iSight should not be Daisychained
I see the Driver for this is for 10.3.7 and does not appear to have been updated in some time.
It used to be the same for mAudio stuff
10:42 PM Sunday; March 30, 2008

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