CS4 Freezes importing .mp4

I'm trying to use CS4 4.2.1 to edit some helmet camera footage, but I'm running into troubles importing. The camera saves the files as .mp4 in a variety of different HD settings (720p, 960p, 1080p, different framerates at each setting).
The problem is that I can import some of the files, but not others. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the HD setting, it just seems to have a grudge against certain files. It imported the most recently made ones just fine, and one of the video files made about a week ago, but it freezes while trying to import any of the other video files from that same video session one week ago.
Any ideas? Running Windows 7.

It might if I wasn't trying to work with two different settings. I recorded some video in 960p (1280x960 @ 30 fps) and some in 720p (1280x720 @ 60 fps). I normally record everything in 960p because the helmet camera is a wide-angle fisheye lens and gets 170 degrees of view at 960p and only 127 degress at 720p and 1080p, but the 720p can record at a faster frame rate for slow motion stuff. Thanks for your help, though.

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