Okay, I found a really cool (if it ends up working out) software program called CoffeeCup Software Webcam 3.5 which has a free 21-day trial.
Although there are numerous typographical errors in various places (not, apparently, in the actual code though!) the layout is reasonably attractive and it’s pretty intuitive, even for me.
Using this new software, I was able to create a webpage which I posted to my personal website to test out. I was able to get a static image of me taken from my desktop about once every five minutes. I decided to see if I could speed up the image generation.
Unfortunately, while I was tweaking the refresh rate on it, the server stopped responding. It has been 12 hours and all three websites we host on that company’s server are still inaccessible.