Can't find camera or open or play files!

I have recently purchased a new Macbook after switching from a windows laptop. I have just been on holiday and recorded about 1 hour of footage on my Panasonic SDR-SW20 video camera which records onto a HCSD card and the files convert to .mpg files.
These open and work fine on my old laptop (both off the laptop hard drive and when playing directly off the external hard drive) although when I transfer them to my mac it recognises they are .mpgs (with a secondary .MTV file with each clip, whatever that is) and are to be played using quicktime but when I click to play them a box comes up saying they are not movie files and can not be played. This also means I can not use them in imovie either. Am I right in saying that iMovie does support .mpg files? It is very frustrating as from the demos I have seen of iMovie 09 mean I cant wait to get it.
I can also not get the mac to find the video camera when connecting it using to USB nor will it find the SD card when connecting it using a USB card reader!
It is all very frustrating especially when everyone said how mac's just work! So far its done anything but! PLEASE HELP!!
I thank you all in advance for any help you can give.

After many hours of playing about I have now resolved the issue.

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