Capture Problems - files randomly splitting.

Hi all,
Can anyone help me figure this? I am importing HD clips for the fist time (I have usually worked with SD) and it seemed to go fine, but after I had imported about 6 tapes, I noticed that instead of capturing each tape as one .mov file, it had split it into a few files for each tape (between about 3-6 files). I don't know why it did this, and cannot seem to find any settings telling it to do this.
Because the tapes are interviews that i'm working on then it's even worse, and I can't even take the next file and 'join' it onto the following file, becuase there's a noticeable but very small gap (one one of them, there must be a few seconds missing.)
Does anyone know why this could be happening?
Thanks

God!! this seems like a bit of a nightmare!! I have trawled through the forum, and can't find an answer to this best I can come up with is this
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8844878&#8844878
Basically saying thatit's a FCP problem. It mentions JVC and sony Cameras being incompatible with it, but it's the very popular Canon XH-A1 I have that i'm recording and capturing with. Am very concerned with this as the stuff I've recorded are very important interviews - I'm also recording more stuff next week, and supposed to be partly editing while i'm away on my Macbook Pro.
I really need to get this sorted!

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