After Effects CS5: impossible to import "special" .flv -Clips?

Hi,
apparently After Effects CS5 has trouble to import some kind of .flv-Clips (encoded with Sorenson Spark?).
I have a lot of these Clips, and its impossible to convert,because actually i work on some projects with CS4. Is there any way to to convince AE CS5 to import these flv.-Files? (->e.g. replace the flv.Encoder with the encoder from CS4, who has no problems and works fine....). Does anyone know the file-name of the encoder?
Or has anyone another solution?
Otherwise i couldnt use CS5 and i thrown the money down the drain...
Thanks and greetings
Wolle

Hi,
thanks to Mylenium and Todd_Kopriva for their detailed anwers!
@Mylenium:
Clips with this unusual .flv-format can be found on www.istockphoto.com
Just download some demo clips from video-section and try to import them to AE CS4 (no problem) and CS5 (failure, even mith media encoder CS5)....
With CS4 it was easy to integrate quickly some of these footages to my projects. Now i have to make a detour with the media encoder.
Ok, better Adobe Media Encoder than no use of the upgrade....
Greetings
Wolle
P.S.:Perhaps sometime there will be an update with a supported Sorenson Spark-encoder

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