HELP!!! Captured footage "garbled"...

I'm in Gr. 12 using premiere to edit a movie project. I've been using premiere for about 6 or 7 years, since my brother introduced me to it. Over that time, I've learned the ins and outs really well. With such little time left to edit, I'm reluctanct to try to learn another editor. Every time I have a new video project, there seems to be a new Premiere out so I just get the new trial. Did this with CS4. Here's my problem:
I have a new camera; a Sony HandyCam HDR-HC3. I understand Adobe doesn't let you capture HDV, unless you pay for the whole thing (which I think is a real shame for poor ameteur editors like me). When I capture the footage in the standard SD, the picture acts all weird and becomes like deinterlaced or something. Audio is fine. I find a work-around about six months ago with CS3 but I don't remember it... . Video plays fine in VLC player. Anyone work-arounds?
Adobe capture the footage as .avi s.'
Update: This is driving me nuts. The videos play in FLV, WMP, and QT. Even adobe media player. WTH is going on?
Update 2: I tried capturing footage from a normal DV tape with this camera and the same damn thing happened. So it wasn't because I just shot it with an HDV tape.
Update 3: Windows FREAKING Movie Maker plays the captured footage fine.
Update 4: I've added an image of Gspot and of the garbled thing its doing.

The academic versions are very, very cheap. I wish that I could qualify for these. Sometimes I think of taking classes in an approved college, just to get these, but then I make $ with them (not forbidden, but certainly outside of the spirit), so I do not feel right doing so. Even when I did take classes, I only used my "discount" for books - never the software.
One bit of advice would be to completely low-level re-format your HDD and totally reinstall everything after using a trial, before reinstalling the full-paid version. I also highly recommend buying the full-paid version and installing it on a clean system. Too many trials and your system is likely filled with all sorts of detritus. Not a good thing at all, and it might take weeks of hunting around to remove it all. If you've had more than one trial installed, you are probably working on a machine that is about ready to systemically crash - this could well be a hard-crash, and nothing but a total rebuild will get it going again. Be very careful and do not commit important Projects to it.
Back to the lack of MPEG support in the trial: Your purpose is exactly why Adobe does not pay the licensing fee to MainConcept for the trials. Too many people abuse the trials, and this would cost Adobe $. Then, Jim, Eddie, I, and others would have to pay more for the software. That would make us all poorer for it. I'm not keen on supporting other folk with my work and efforts, regardless of what the tone in the US might be right now.
To put it bluntly, you're walking on egg shells here, as we all pay full-fare for our software.
Hunt

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