Final Cut supported formats...

As I was unable to find a solution to my problem at Final Cut Pro help page , I have decided to post this here .
I bought my PB with FC Express 2 preinstalled .
Now , I shoot my "videos" with a Sony Cybershot photo camera . When I copy the footage onto my PB's HDD it comes in .mpg format .
I can watch that just fine with Quick Time (both video & audio). When I import the footage into FC and place in the trim window or the timeline , it doesn't have any sound anymore . This is quite annoing because the Final Cut help documentation says mpg is a supported format , and there is no bundled software within the Mac OS X to convert the footage into another supported format (like avi or mov) .
iMovie doesn't even import the files at all , Graphic Converter does open the files but doesn't export the sound .
I even tried to rip the sound from the footage with QT Pro in order to import it separately onto the audio timeline , but amazingly the option in Quick Time disappears from the export dialog box options ( though it works with divx and xvid ) .
I'm out of ideas , and I really need to make this work .
And I'm not gonna go back to Windows just for that .
Sorry if this is not the place to post this but I'm a bit desperate as I have some deadlines for some projects .
Thanx in advance for any sugestions .

.mpg format
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
ObSig: I don't benefit from the link.

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