Quicktime won't record video, so won't Photobooth - Related? How to fix

Hi all, hope you can help me.
I use Photobooth to record little movies. It worked fine up until yesterday it stopped recording video's.
The Photo Booth programme openes normally and the isight works with the viewer and the little green light.
You can see the picture, the counter counts down 3,2,1, but then wont record any video and the record timer doesnt work - just shows a black screen in the drop down box.
To Fix - I tried Trashing Photobooth Pref but that hasn't fixed the prob.
I popped into my local Apple store explained it so they said just use Quick time instead.
Popped home, tried to record a movie and i get an error message sying 'cannot be completed or something similar.
I do remember Adobe Flash plugin updating - wonder if that affected it so i Uninstalled it but that hasnt solved it.
Anyone with any advice greatly accepted.
All the best

You've tried some good things.  Here are some others for your consideration.
Flash has nothing to do with QuickTime or Photo Booth recording, so not to worry.
Sometimes simply restarting Mac fixes things.  If not, consider this:
• If Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
   suggestions do not help you, (the "reset" suggested there
   often restores normal function,) continue with the following.
• Use your Mac's Disk Utility to repair permissions and then
   download and apply the latest Combo Update, for your Mac OS,
   the current one is at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484
• Repair permissions again immediately following the system restart
   that completes the Combo update.
Properly applying the Combo version of updates can sometimes correct software problems, but, if your trouble is caused by a hardware problem, there are no user serviceable parts of iSight.  For hardware help, contact an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service.
Message was edited by: EZ Jim
Mac OSX 10.7.3

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