I finally got motivated and built a new workstation for myself.  This meant that the webcam was taken offline until I had a chance to reinstall the hardware and software that supports it.  As a part of that process I moved the webcam to one of my servers that stays on 24 hours a day.  That will permit me to let my workstation sleep when I’m not using it.  It also will hopefully make the webcam a bit more reliable.  I had so many USB devices connected to my workstation that I had occasional issues with keeping the webcam up.  This will be a good test to see if that issue is resolved by moving the webcam.  Anyway, configuration on the server was simple, I modified my firewall rules to point to he new webcam host, configured the software, and away we go.  I may also choose to revisit some of the other webcam software that had more features but weren’t always stable on my workstation.  But I will see how this goes for a few days/weeks before I start messing up what’s working again.