Final Cut Suddenly Stopped Recognizing my Sony HDV-FX1 - help!

I've been capturing footage from my Sony HDV-FX1 with no trouble... I'm running a brand new MacPro 8-core and using Final Cut 6.0.5...
But out of nowhere, Final Cut stopped recognizing my camera. I've got the iLink disabled - I'm choosing "Easy Setup" and choosing HDV 60i - nothing seems to work... I've tried different firewire ports... I can't get the computer to recognize the camera - which is frustrating given that the camera recognizes the cord -and the computer had been importing footage just fine for several days...
Can anyone help??

Odd... nothing was showing up in System Profiler, not even my two external drives... I shut them down, unlplugged, then replugged everything in including my camera firewire cord, started em back up, and presto!
Thanks! It worked - any clue why?

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