Grandma wants to see her little lemurlings in realtime. Two questions:

What are the better webcams out there? Several sites recommend the Logitech Pro 9000, but it looks a bit like overkill to me. The only feature of interest is the low-light stuff, everything else sounds useless. Thoughts?

Second question, what is the most old-person friendly video chat software? She says that one of her church organizations already uses Skype; should I try to hook us up that way? Experiences with video chat that I can learn from?

I have avoided the world of video chat/videoconferencing for over a decade. Now I have to learn it. Direct me toward useful information of be forever damned.