Vista part 3...

Had to reinstall everything from scratch on the sony laptop. Somehow there was a conflict to the sony internal webcam driver with a programs.... This, I had never seen before. Despite my every effort, I had no choice. Restore the computer back to when I got it in HK resolved the problem; now, just have to apply all the patchings and the software I need, one by one.... Make sure the conflict won't happen again. A pain in the butts.