IMovie HD 6 Stopped Controlling Sony DCR-PC350

I just upgraded from iMovie HD to iMovie HD 6 and began attempting to import a widescreen format movie from my Sony DCR-PC350 into iMovie HD 6. I've been using this HandyCam successfully through iMovie 5 and iMovie HD... both controlled the camera flawlessly. Now, however, I turned the camera on to the playback setting and used the new iMovie HD 6 to begin rewinding the camera. It rewound perfectly. Then, I tried to import the video off it. iMovie shows a grey clip with the time ticking by but the camera is not playing! So, I stopped the import and noticed that none of the camera controls in iMovie are active... they are all greyed out. Since then I've tried restarting, throwing out iMovie prefs, unplugging everything and plugging it all back in, rewinding and playing the movie on the camera using the camera controls to make sure it wasn't the tape, and nothing seems to be able to make iMovie HD 6 recognize my camera anymore. It's been 3 hours of testing to no avail. Nothing seems to make the camera control buttons to become active again. Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance...
QuickSilver G4 933   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Thank you for your link. While I had my doubts about the resetting of my Camcorder to be the fix, it worked! WHY it needed resetting right in the middle of functioning untouched in it's cradle -- I have no idea.

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