New Skype won't work on my system

[Mark Wallace]

I teleconference with my fiancee on Skype every Friday Night.  She goes 
to a computer cafe in Hong Kong, I use Skype via Linux.

There was a new version of Skype in the upgrades that won't work on my 
system.   If she starts her webcam, then her picture breaks up and Skype 
crashes on my system.  Ubuntu 12.04 with Skype 4.  The old one worked 
fine.  Skype then loses all of it's settings.

Remember, she can't install anything on her computer cafe computer. What 
do I do?  PIdgin doesn't work wiith a lot of messenger services.

Mark Wallace