Final Cut Express ignoring my camera!

Hello folks. I've been using a Canon Vixia HF10 for the last 7 months with my Final Cut Express. I just plug the camera in, set it to "Video Play," turn it on, and Final Cut Express recognizes it and begins filling up the clip queue.
Earlier this week I did some organizing of my desktop and decided to install a few updates I'd been lagging behind on. I don't even know if one of them was a FCE update or not, but now all of a sudden Final Cut Express just will not recognize the camera at all. Neither will iMovie. It's particularly frustrating because I can see that the camera is plugged in on the desktop, and can even play the files that are still on the camera via my VLC media player. I am fairly certain it's not the hardware causing the issue, but I can't figure out how to get FCE to pick it up via log and transfer!
I tried clearing the cache and setting the preferences to Plain Stereo as per the suggestions of some other threads, but like I said the program is just not picking it up at all.

Well, when I click Add Folder in the Log and Transfer pane, this is what I see:
http://loonybob.homestead.com/files/Picture_1.png
I can see the Canon drive, its several subfolders, and even the raw .MTS format video clips waiting to be edited. When I try to click "Open" on the drive, any of its subfolders, or a clip itself it says ""STREAM" contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media." Thus leaving me with no way to import my clips.
This is really boggling my mind considering it has worked just fine for the past 7 months.

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