IMovie HD 6.0.3 won't see my Sony HDR-CX11E USB connected camcorder

Despite spending 4 hours now and wanting to shoot myself in the face. My brand new Sony HDR-CX11E is not being recognised by Imovie HD 6.0.3.
I have followed the instructions to the letter about a hundred times now. I'm using a Intel Core Duo imac, when I plug in the USB cable the memory stick is showing on the desktop, but when I open Imovie.... nothing, No Camera Attached. I have tried opening imovie with every available option tagged, DV, DV Wide, HDV 1080, HDV 720, Mpeg4 but every time it just fails to see the camcorder.
I read in one of my thousand searches on the subject that you first need to delete any Mpeg2 content from the camera, but I only bought it today and can't find any to delete, I even reformatted the stick to no avail.
PLEASE help !!!!!

thank you thank you thank you !!
I am an official idiot, I mistakenly thought I was using the latest version of imovie which I actually got with ilife09. Cos I was clicking on the imovie icon in my apps. I just assumed when I installed ilife09 it would overwrite the old version. All i had to do was open imovie 09 which i have done and all is now well.
That's hours of my life I'll never get back.

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from LKN 1935.
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from Karsten.
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