This problem is all over the place, but people are misunderstanding the problem. It only occurs with INCOMING video (sometimes after just a few SECONDS). OUTGOING video is fine (so it's not a problem with the webcam driver). two-way webcam sessions work fine in Yahoo Messenger. It is only in Skype that we see it. Furthermore, it's only with the *latest* version of skype. It never happened before. Only after an 'automatic update' ran. We have tried manually uninstalling, and manually downloading a new skype install. Same problem. It *has* to be a bug in skype's latest version. It doesn't happen on all machines, but on the ones I've heard of it, they are all 64 bit machines. However MINE is 64 bit and no problem. It's my girlfriend is experiencing this. She has Windows 7 while I have Vista, but I've heard some people are experiencing it on Vista too. So that's why I conclude it's a bug unique to Skype's latest upgrade. We probably won't see a fix until Skype figures it out and makes a fix upgrade available to everybody. In the meantime we're shifting from Skype to Yahoo Messenger to communicate, although both of us like Skype better (when it works).