Canon ZR200 to IMovie 5.0.2

I am having trouble importing movies from my Canon ZR200a to IMovie 5.0. I can control the camera from IMovie, it shows that the camera is playing but there is nothing but a blue screen on my monitor. I have tried disconnecting every firewire cable I have connected including USB cables. I have dumped my plist for imovie and I have verified that my firewire port is recognizing the camera. The other odd thing is that the control buttons on IMovie disappear when I hover over them with the mouse. I have been having this problem for sometime now and it is really getting aggravating. Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Thanks,

I visited the Apple store today and was able to resolve the issue. For anyone having this problem, clear your com.IMovie.plists as well as com.bezzle.plist and finally clear the imovie cache. This resolved my problem.
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I have been attacking this problem for a few hours and I have found that if you turn off and or make all network items inactive the camera will immediately be recognized by iMovie.
Took a long time to figure this out. Not sure why this is happening but it has fixed my problem.
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