webcams

im having a bit of a prob with webcams of sorts... here goes.
my father in law and i have the same cameras (epsilon 1.3) cheap and cheerfulls. i am running xp pro corp and he is 98se. when we are both using msn 6 public version of messenger.when we use these as web cams i can see him at the top of the page and myself at the bottom. he on the other hand can only see himself on the bottom of the page..we have tried msn 5 and the problem was the same. can anyone help please. is it an xp and 98se compaibility prob or what.... please help thanx
 
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