Color doesn't recognize movie files

Hello, I'm pretty new to FCP and I've been working on a project for about a week.
When I tried to send my sequence to Color, it seemed to load the sequence, but none of the files are recognized by Color. It looks like this:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/majtki/Screenshot2010-02-06at31831AM.png
I'm not sure what the problem is, I have been trying to work this out all day. First, I thought that the files were offline because of all of them being on an external hard drive, so I tried to move all of them to the computer. Didn't work.
I tried relinking media, but Color wouldn't let me select any appropriate files, leaving them grayed out.
Could it be the files themselves? All the footage was shot with a Nikon d300s, which is supposed to shoot HD quality, 24 fps movies in NTSC. It wouldn't make sense though, since I tried opening the files separately (not in that specific sequence) in a different project and they worked just fine.
What's more interesting is that all the files seem to work fine in FCP and even when I export the Color project back to FCP, FCP recognizes all the files without any problem.
Thanks so much for your time

Looks like your camera shoots in MPEG-2 wrapped in an AVI container. You need to convert you videos to something like Pro res. Final Cut Pro doesn't support MPEG-2 video file. Yes you can import MPEG-2 files into FCP. But that doesn't mean it's supported. MPEG-2 video are a delivery format not an editing format.
Color doesn't support still or text (from FCP). Read Color's manual page 84 for supported file formats.
Here's a tutorial by Nick Holmes on how to use Mpeg-Streamclip (free) to convert MPEG-2 files for use in FCP.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2070861&tstart=0

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