Converting MPEGs to play sound on Imovie

Hi
Last night a friend took his camera over to try and improve some of his movies on my Imovie. Every thing went fine until I imported it into Imovie and the sound was lost. It seemed to be the software as the movie clip played fine through Quicktime. When we delved into the help menues it did tell us that the sound had been lost if we were importing an MPEG. THis was true enough when we checked. What confused us was that other clips were playing fine in Imove however these were from my own camera and were AVI files.
We couldn't however find any help on how to solve the problem. I tried saving the MPEG file to and AVI in IMovie but this obviously had no sound either.
Can anyone tell me how i can get these MPEGs to play in IMOVIE with sound??
regards
aw

hi
thanks for the advice.
I see that i am using Imovie HD 6.0.3. I don't know whether that makes any difference?
So I have to download Imovie 8 and if i import the MPEGs into it the sound should come through?
or do i still have to convert the MPEGS into AVI. I don't want to if i can get the MPEGS tpo play sound.
aw

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