Help with importing footage correctly with Sony Camera

I have a Sony HDR SR 11 camera that records in AVCHD codec at 1920 X 1080i HD. When I import the m2ts files into Premiere they will get choppy in the time line and the footage breaks up digitally.  No matter what setting I choose it does not import them. Does anyone know if Premire supports this codec? Sony is clueless when it comes to this stuff.
I have to actually render the thing in Sony Vegas Platinum and THEN import it into Premiere if I want it to work that way. Any suggestions?

Hello All,
Sigh, well it's just not working well for me lol
I have rendered this several times. I got one to work, but I want to change my background color. I am trying to alter my size down to 1280x720 without getting any black bars on the video and I cannot render to flash as I need a different file type. Blu ray worked, but I forgot it separates the audio and that is not good to me.
Below is a jpg with the dsitorition around the face and a rendered clip with no sound of the max headroom effect. I rendered with the upper field first so I do not know why I got this error.
I thought this might be easier than you all downloading.
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z150/thegaminggoose/Test-for-forums.jpg
http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z150/thegaminggoose/?action=view&current=r.flv
I will try to render again in the mean time. Even reducing the  bit rate makes my 8 min video take 3 hours.

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