Cannot open old DV files Created in older versions of PP

I started a project on one machine using CS3. I captured all of the footage using CS3. The footage was regular DV footage captured direct from a DV camcorder, no special codecs or anything. Three are not even any effects of any kind on any clip. its all simply captured footage and thats all.
I move the capture hard-drive to my CS4 machine and try to open the project in CS4 on the other machine and CS4 crashes (after converting to a CS4 project) . I open the CS3 project in CS3 on this new machine and all is well. Everything is fine and a save as a new name.
Again, I try to open in CS4 and it crashes (after converting to a CS4 project). So I start CS4 again and this time I try to start a new project. So far so good until I try to import a clip that was captured using CS3. Crashes again.
Next, I open CS4 and start a new project and import both a .psd and a .mov file successfully. Then, I open an old .avi DV clip from some other project back in CS1 days. It too bombs off CS4.
Next, I export from the CS4 project the timeline with the .psd and .mov clip as a DV avi file using media encoder. Then I import the resulting file back into CS4 and CS4 again crashes. So it won't even import its own footage created in CS4!
Any ideas what is happening to me? This is the first project that I have used CS4 for other than some slide shows with still graphics.

i Who is asking here? Weren't you the one with a question and were you not the one asking for help?
Harm, yes I was asking for help and you have yet to offer any, have you? Please show me one post where you were offering any help. Your first post was obviously designed to be nasty and I have been trying to defend myself ever since.
I am sorry that you did not grasp the importance of trying to export from CS4 to see if CS4 can read its own files. (This is not my normal work-flow, although sometimes I do do this to avoid rendering an entire clip with effects that is adjoined to another clip with a transition.) But if you cannot understand why I did that after unsuccessfully trying to import CS3 dv avi footage and cs1 DV footage, I cannot possible explain it to you without a conversation with you.
If you do not have the capabilities to understand my rational for this type of problem solving and you have nothing to add but "buy a PC", please just refrain from posting on my threads. That is all that I ask. If you don't want to or cannot help, then don't post. If you think that I am an idiot and feel that it is necessary to tell me, don;t. I might not be the sharpest hatchet in the woodshed, but I do not need you to tell me this. Haven't we been to this dance before?
i Why would you want to export with AME to import again? How did you export with AME without importing first? That makes no sense. What happens when you use a more common work-flow, import the AVI into a project?
All of these questions were answered in the very first post.
i On this forum you are dependent on fellow editors to spend their time and effort to help you. If you need help, do give the relevant information. There have been a number of posts on what info is required to help us help you.
I agree, I thought that I had given the relevant information. Honestly, I forgot that the forums had been combined for Mac/Win. I erroneously assumed that this was just a windows only forum. If there is a standardized form that include all of the specs that are required for editors to help, I'd be happy to fill it out and post it in the first post of any thread that I start. Until someone takes this initiate to design a standardized form, I do not think that its too much to ask for people to ask if they think that it might be relevant or simply not post on threads where users do not provide your minimum level of information.
But I also believe that people who do decide to post should be required to attempt to be helpful. I do not believe that a post that ends with the statement that one should have purchased a PC qualifies in any way as trying to being helpful evn if it were understandable that that I was using a MAC.
Do we need to continue this? If so, I think that we are going to have to exchange phone numbers so this does not go on forever.

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