System hanging and red optical light

Posted this before, but I thought it had gone away.
From time to time (usually when waking from sleep - though not always), applications such as PhotoBooth and iMovie hang (spinning ball) and red optical out light comes on.
Last time this happend I tried to close the applications down, the window goes but the menu bar is still visible but inresponsive, and the program does not get removed from the dock.
Attempts to force a quit do not work.
However, I recently had a number of other programs running, Word for instance. This is not affected by the behaviour of the other applications, neither was Google Earth, which I was able to load and quit while the other apps were not responding. I was also able to quit from Pages without a problem.
So it seems that it might be linked to PhotoBooth and or iMovie. It is annoying because you can't even force a shut down as it refused to terminate these programs. You have to hold down the power button. The interesting thing is why the red optical light would come one.
The machine has all the latest updates.

I have a similar problem. Yesterday night i used my MacBook with external speakers and since then the optical out has been red and I can't get any sound through the internal speakers.
I tried turning the laptop off but it doesn't do anything, the optical port will go red as soon as i turn it on. I can't control the sound volume anymore except when I plug something in the audio out port.
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