Quicktime and macam -user issue?

i have recently installed the macam driver into the library/quicktime folder in order to use a webcam ...
and everything works fine with all kinds of applications-BUT i have had to create a new user so that skype recognises my webcam....could there be some corrupt preferences in my "old" user database?
or why could that be?
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Problem resolved. I have been unable to get Firefox's reported solution to work, but was able to get resolution by loading firefox with profile manager enabled.
./firefox -profilemanager
This will allow you to create a new profile. I then copied out of ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox the new profile and placed my bookmarks from my original profile in the new profile folder. I then proceeded to trash and delete all instances of Firefox and the preferences. Restart and download a new version of Firefox. Make sure that Quicktime preferences has been set to not handle Flash Media. Install the new version of Firefox you just downloaded. Start up Firefox with profile manager turned on in terminal with the command above. Once you have started and created a default profile replace the profile folder contents in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox with the contents of your clean profile created earlier. This should resolve the crashes and resolve the Quicktime issue.

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