Capturing DVC Pro with firewire

Having some trouble, hope someone has a solution. I am trying to capture footage from DVC Pro 25 into FCP using firewire. FCP 5 does not support DVC Pro 25 anymore, not since ver.3, but I was wondering if there was a way to adjust the capture and sequence settings to make my own setting that would do it right. I have played with the settings a lot and I continue to lose audio sync. It looks good until about 5 min and then progressively loses sync so that at a 25 minute end of a clip the audio is as much as two seconds out of sync.
I am using a Panasonic AJ-D250 and the firewire card is the AJ-YAD250.
MacG5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   FCP Studio, DVC Pro Deck

As the deck controller (in this case, Final Cut Pro) is cueing up the deck for the 'edit' (in this case, a capture), the controller signals the deck as to what frame/field it's on and the deck responds. This happens with a certain frequency (every so many fields/frames), and the capstans in the deck adjust the speed of the tape so the tape is playing the proper frame when the controller tells the recorder (in this case, FCP) to start recording.
FCP5 changed the number of polls the controller made with the deck, effectively doubling the polling. Most decks respond to this very nicely. Pannys don't, so tech support wrote a plug that returns the polling to what existed in FCP4.
As I said, I don't know if this has any effect when you're controlling the deck via FW. But, if you'll Email me at the address in my Profile, I'll send the plug to you. It's a zipped text file that you'll unzip and drop into /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins folder.
I'm doubtful that it will resolve the sync problem you're having, but you're welcome to it.

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