Firewire camera connection weirdness: only works if plugged in through ext.

Trying to capture footage from my camcorder into FCP (or iMovie) but I don't get a connection. Swapped cables, restarted, reset PRAM and logged in under a different user acct but the only thing that works is to plug the camera into an external FW CD burner. Then it connects.
I've had FW weirdness once before where the FW800 didn't work any more. As soon as I tried to replicate it at the genius bar (iMac 24) it worked fine (after logging in as a new admin user).
Any clues?

Also: I tried two camcorders (Canon GL2), and everything worked just fine last week, with no apparent changes except for the upgrade of iMovie to the latest version (but if I use iMovie I use version 6 anyway).

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