Capturing from Canon MV600 Problem

Just bought FCHD 3.5 for my iMac G5 )1.9Ghz, 1.5RAM). Linked via Firewire to a Canon MV600 Digital Camera, The cam seems to be casuing a conflict with the computer, It's runs slower, and neither iMove or FCHD are recognising the cam, and will feze and have to force quit, Unless i turn the cam off and everything speeds up again.
Please Help
Many Thanks
Andry T

OK we got a 250gb ext Lacie HD, which is also my scratch disk so can't get rid of it. A usb printer (which is turned off) and some speakers...
I noticed my camera isn't on the Apple list of supported devices for FCE, Is there anything I can do, like make a new pluggin or driver? If not then there's not point of having the camera, not even iMovie will recognise it (however it would before I installed FCE)
Thanks again for any help in advance

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