Good setting for DV files?

Okay, I'm trying not to be impatient with FCPX, but I learned today that the numerous cameras that we use record in a format that FCPX won't import.
DV. I thought that that was a fairly universal format in the reporting field.
So now I have to batch files for the next few weeks until we upgrade our cameras (we still us SD, so upgrades are needed!).
Which compressor setting should we use for basic DV, 720x480? My first batch imported with no audio, yet the files had audio when played in Quicktime (?). My second batch conversion showed up as unimportable.
Please explain a reliable setting????

We use six Sony1080i's. The DV files are saved onto a card, then moved to a network.
As I was teaching FCPX to the editors, we were unable to import the files from a pen drive (network was down). They neglected to also copy the IDX files, so I assumed we'd found the problem.
Today, network is fine, but we're still getting "no importable files".
A sister TV station sent 2 techs that use FCPX daily, and they're stumped.
Right now we're testing the camera to record as AVI... any other suggestions? The problem seems to source at the camera and FCX, as the DV files play in Quicktime and Compressor, WITHOUT the IDX's.

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