Log and capture problems for HDV using FCP 5.0.1

I cant seem to get a picture in my log and capture browser when using HDV. The screen says my camera is connected, I see timecode correctly rolling in sync with my cameras timecode, I can use the controls, but no picture on the screen?
When I hit capture now, the capture screen pops up and gives a message "waiting for data from device".
we shot at 720p at 25fps, there is no capture preset for this in my version of FCP. Could this be the problem? Please help!!

Thanks for responding.
It's a mac osx 10.4.11 and a 2 ghz intel core duo. I'm using easy set up in final cut pro, but there is no option for hd fire wire basic (which apple support told me to look for). The only hd options are 1080i50, i60 and 720 p30. The other hd options are for the apple intermediate codec. When I use the easy set up for hd 1080i60, then go to log and capture, it doesn't give me the preview window to set in's out, batch capture etc. It only lets me capture straight from the camera and I have to manually stop it and start it which is a major pain. Plus the clips need to be rendered once I put them in a timeline. I've shot and edited on mini dv with final cut for nearly 7 years, but now that i've tried to upgrade and shoot hd mini dv, all of these problems have arrived in capturing. I'm starting to think my version of final cut pro (5.0.1) just doesn't work with hd, unless it's very time consuming. Any ideas?

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On further inspection all of the footage that I wanted was there, HOWEVER, by using the DV Start/Stop to create markers and then using those markers to create subclips if there are two or more clips with continuous timecode it consolidates them into one contiguous clip thereby defeating the purpose of creating the subclips in the first place. I’m guessing but if I hadn’t deleted some of the subclips I didn’t want to convert I would have ended up with the same large file with a different name.
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Tape 3 Part 2
I won’t bore everyone with going through the steps I’ll just explain how this one was different.
1) I didn’t use the DV Start/Stop option, instead marked I/O separately leaving at least 2 frames between edits to make sure there was discontinuous timecode.
2) I also didn’t bother naming or logging at this point and left whatever ridiculous name the subclip process assigned.
3) The settings in the Media Manager were all set from the previous conversion hit OK [this time read the warnings which would have done nothing to correct the previous attempt].
4) 12 subclips went in and 12 new independent clips came out.
5) Once I had the new clips I logged and added descriptions and labels etc…
Although this sounds like a very convoluted process, and it is certainly much more difficult than it needs to be, by the fourth tape it was predictable and quite fast.
I will say though that because FCP consolidated any continuous clips without warning you really have to pay attention to detail. And it would be nice if we could use the log & capture window for this process so any descriptions, labels etc would be carried forward to the new clip.
Certainly not as easy to accomplish as it is in PPro but definitely possible. There might be more functionality that I just missed, if so please let me know. Anything that can be done to simplify this would be helpful.
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