Converting blackberry Tour video to Imovie

I have been trying for the life of me as a new Mac user to get my video from my blackberry tour to my Imovie app. I loaded the clips to a folder on the desktop and then tryed to play them. Quicktime sees the files but won't play them. 3gpp file is what is listed in info I thought it was an avi but its not. When played you see the video but the bar just zips by with no sound or video. I tryed persian and nothing worked. I downloaded mpeg streamclip and converted to quicktime, dv,and mpeg 4 and nothing works. help?

What other information about the files does quicktime give you. 3gp files shouldn't be an issue for QT.

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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx
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