Digitizing Trouble-timecode errors/freezing/inability to take long clip

Recorded on minidv (ntsc) at 24p widescreen (anapomorphic). Am trying to digitize the footage in a project set up as NTSC DV with NTSC anamorphic capture settings. I understand that FCP will automatically convert the footage to 29.97. I have over 100Gigs of space available on an external Lacie. Deck is attached with 400 firewire.
When I try to capture, FCP won't allow any clip longer than a few minutes (I want to capture entire tape). Either the picture freezes during capture and I press escape to hold onto that footage and start again OR audio and video begin to loose sync OR I get a message that says there were timecode breaks and the footage must be recaptured OR I get a message of dropped frames. Have turned off "abort capture" on dropped frames.
I have trashed settings several times. Have shut down and restarted.
Often get the spinning ball/sluggish behavior when trying to remotely control the deck. Often get "preview unavailable" when trying to capture.
What can I do?
Thanks,
Katy

Two questions:
1) What version of QuickTime are you running?
2) Do you have the Lacie drive connected via Firewire 800? Sometimes mixing 400 and 800 on the same bus can cause problems, particularly with Lacie drives. Sometimes putting two devices on the same bus (regardless of speed) can cause problems. An Apple support has the following to say about it:
Certain DV camcorders cannot be connected to a computer while a FireWire disk drive is connected simultaneously. In many cases, you can improve performance by installing a separate FireWire PCI card to connect your FireWire drive.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58636

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