Firewire port on Macpro won't work with my Sony DV Cam

I just got my Macpro and love it-but I do have a small problem that maybe somebody can help with.
I have a Sony PD100A. I was using this camera on my PC just up until last week and grabbing video via firewire into Premier. It all worked fine.
On my Mac, I plug into a firewire port, and neither iMovie or FCpro can capture from the camera. I seems to recognize the camera, but when you try to capure video, it just locks up.
I also have a firewire hard drive that I'm using to tranfer data from my PC to the Mac-it works just fine. Which leads me to believe somehow the camera isn't working with the Mac.
HOWEVER-I use a Digidesign Digi 002 rack attached to a firewire port on the back. The 002 has a passthrough firewire port on the back, so I hooked up the camera. Lo and behold, the Capture now works. But only by going through the 002.
I'd really like to be able to capture video by just plugging my camera inot the fron Firewire posts after I shoot some tape.
Does anybody have an idea why the front or rear firewire ports won't control or capture from my camera directly?
Thanks in advance for any help with this.
Greg

A couple of things to try…
1) Open a new user account and see if it works there
2) Reset PRAM and NVRAM…
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
3) Reset the System Management Controller…
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304123
4) Try your other Firewire ports
5) Boot off another drive and see if it's your software rather than possibly hardware

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