Best Practices for viewing home video on my Mac

Come on people - THERE HAS TO BE A BEST PRACTICE out there for storing and viewing family video!!
I'm the typical dad out there taking photos and video of my kids playing soccer, family trips ect ...
When I get home I hook my camera up to my MacMini (which is hooked up to my Plasma TV - and backed up to an external HD) and within mere seconds, my photos are nicely captured in iPhoto. Friends and family come over, I flip on the MacMini, select iPhoto (or Front Row) and we enjoy great slide shows.
I want to be able to have the same easy access to my videos -flip on my MacMini, start Front Row, view my various home movies, pick one and enjoy the show.
What is the best way to do this?
Current Technology
Canon HV20
iMovie 08
iPhoto 08
Front Row

Thanks for the welcome WC! And thanks for the initial help.
I have never exported video before (sad but true), so I have a couple "Workflow" questions for you or anyone else that knows this stuff
1) Should I assume I just hook my firewire up from my Canon to the MacMini and everything just starts to export?
2) Once exported into iMovie, I assume I can edit out some of the garbage (example - my wife sometimes forgets to turn off the camcorder and she'll video her leg or the ground for minutes at a time - I'd like to trash that.
3) Once edited, how do I move it into iTunes?
I will probably need to take an iMovie class ...

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