We want something that works right, not only under certain circumstances, that eliminates both of those. I dont have a msn screenname and most of my friends dont either. Gtalk is crap when it comes to video on the n900. Some of my friends didnt even know about gtalk, so getting them to sign into their gmail to use gtalk was kind of annoying for them. These are not solutions.

We need video call capabilities.
We need skype video chat since it is built in already.
Flash webcam support would be nice but I hear its a hardware limitation, still, not an excuse to not have it enabled at all.

I have actually managed to get failry decent quality from my front camera in good lighting so I know the problem isnt just quality concerns.

Even like 1 fps video would be a start for streaming. Heck, I can do way better than that with Qik.