IMovie 6HD is freezing up with restart required to gain control of iMac G5

Sorry to be so late into the boards here, I know this issue has been dealt with before.... I simply can't find the issue that best speaks to my problem.
The life of my son is chronicled on a series of 8mm video tapes. The tapes start with VERY analog, and move into more reliably reformatted to digital as we upgraded our 8mm camera over time. Any way, I have imported these tapes into my Mac (after converting to digital). As I try to review the digitized movies, the playback stops within seconds of starting, freezes on one frame, while the playhead moves on as if the movie is playing in the background. I don't think it is really playing inthe background, as the iMac is frozen solid iMovie can't be Force Quit, a shutdown is required.
Important to note: this glitch started with iMovie 4, the importing software. I upgraded to 6HD to try to conquer the problem, without success.
The digitized clips are kept on a WD 500GB USB2 external drive. It was reformatted to HFS+ (journaled) before starting the digitizing. I watched each movie clip play as it was being input/recorded onto the harddrive. There is nothing else on the HD but the movie clips.
I am baffled. I run iMovie 6HD v.6.0.2, OSX 10.4.6 on my 2GHz 20" iMac w/1GB Ram.
Any ideas?
Thanks for the help!
Tim

I bought an intermediate digital 8mm cancorder on eBay for $200 or so. A Sony DCR-TRV340. Sony's built-in analog-digital converter let me put my analog tapes into camera, and provided me with digital output. Once I had digital output from a camera, I had digital input for the iMovie App. I no longer needed the vastly poor stand-alone analog-digital converters in the marketplace (Dazzle, for one), that were freezing the iMovie program from the get-go. Although I received NO replies to my question, I managed to solve this one with a little catching-up technological-wise.

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