Horrors Of DVX-100A With Final Cut 4.5-5

I posted earlier about FireWire issues while exporting video to my camera via FireWire. It stuttered, a lot.
I tried it with my Canon Xl1 and it actually seemed to work better. But being that this problem is only happening with ONE movie I've working on, I still have not been sure where the problem lies - the project, the software, or the camera.
But then I discovered THIS: A chart that shows you the DVX's compatibility with FCP 4.5 - and guess what? It's NOT compatible! The chart doesn't even have FCP 5 on it! So I'm a bit shocked.
You can see the chart here: Panosonic IEEE1394 Compatibility Table.
Just a heads up!

Well... my GUESS is I may have done something bad to my firewire port. But no way to know that right now. The way I keep it working is by turning the camera on BEFORE I turn on the computer. Also, any external drives that have media I'll be sending through NEEDS to be on too.
And another note - the camera flickers when viewing playback from video on the computer. It is in VTR mode, not recording anything. And still I get the digital flicker and gray pixels, and somtimes the juttting line at the bottom of the image.... which tells me it's probably my firewire port.

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