Existing video files won't import into Lightroom 4.1

I have several hundred videos I have taken, either with a Canon SD800, Canon S95, Canon T2i or a GoPro.
New videos I take on this equipment works just fine when adding to Lightroom. But when I try to import older files, I get error: video file not imported with the quantity in parenthesis.
I have tried purging the video cache, I have tried task manager - disabling dynamiclinkmanager and dynamiclinkmediaserver. Occasionally I will be able to import one or two videos after doing this but then it hangs up again.
Running Win7, LR4.1.
I don't have anything else up and running when I do this.
Any ideas? This is really frustrating me as I want my catalog to be complete.

I am having almost exactly the same problem with Lightroom 4 and now, with Lightroom 5.
I was able to import  RAW formats from the folders already on my external RAID harddrive. However, I was unable to import video from the same folders.  I can sometimes get a few video files to import, but then the import process runs for a very long time,and I get an popup error message "There was a problem importing the video".
It is impossible to "syncronize folder" because the same thing happens and the import process ends with the popup error message "There was a problem importing the video".  Sometimes I am also unable to upload photos because the import process crashes because of video files.
An online search reveals that a number of peopel have similar problems but that no clear solution exists.This simply should not be happening in program like Lightroom that has a huge crew of developers to support it.
My system:
Lenovo W520
2.20 gigahertz Intel Core i7-2720QM
16 gigs RAM
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Hyper-threaded (8 total)
Intel(R) HD Graphics Family [Display adapter]
NVIDIA Quadro 1000M [Display adapter]
Any suggestions on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated!

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