USB/DirectShow camera not showing in NI-MAX

I've got a Point Grey Chameleon CMLN-13S2M USB 2.0 camera and it is not showing up in NI-MAX.
I'm well aware of the Directshow registration problems with the PGR cameras, and as far as I can tell the camera is properly registered. It shows up with no problems in AMCAP, a simple Directshow viewer, and also in Skype.
I just uninstalled the PGR drivers and spent a while going through the registry to delete all references I could to Point Grey and PGR. I then reinstalled the 32 bit version of the latest drivers, v2.5 beta 2. I also upgraded the camera firmware to the latest.
I'm running
Labview 2012 SP1 f2, 12.0.1
Vision development module 12.1.0
MAX 5.4.0f0
NI-IMAQ 4.7.2
NI-IMAQdx 4.1.0
Any ideas? This is a side project and I've been working on it off and on now for more than a year and I've got to get this camera working.
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Yes, I still see the camera with other DirectShow viewers after the reinstall. The latest Point Grey drivers give the option to register the directshow drivers during the installation. I assumed that this worked since the camera shows up with the other DirectShow viewers, but I also manually registered the files according to the instructions in your links just in case.
I believe that a year or more ago ago when I was running an old version of LV (2009, I think) it did show up in MAX. I had upgraded a few of the LV components piecemeal, but when my university upgraded to 2012 I decided to uninstall and reinstall with the latest versions of everything. I have never seen it listed in MAX, red x or not, since I uninstalled the old version to upgrade.
I have used a camera from a different company and it worked fine.
I found that the 32bit directshow cameras are listed in the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}\Instance
and I verified this by modifiying the "FriendlyName" registry key for the camera that does show up and observing that the name changes in MAX. The point grey camera is listed here in the registry but does not show up in MAX.

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