IMovie HD, Quicktime 7, Leopard and Export to Camcorder problem

I'm hoping someone has seen this behavior before. I am working with a pretty old setup but it shouldn't be the problem it is.
I'm working on a 1.25GHz G4 Flat-Panel iMac. I have a Sony DCR-HC96 tape camcorder (firewire 400). I am using iMovie HD (6) and want to export my edited movies back to the the camera for archiving in DV. In Tiger, There is no problem. In Leopard, iMovie begins the export but the video stream never gets out of the computer. The camera goes to record mode but only records a black screen and audio.
I have installed Tiger 10.4.11 on an external drive with a copy of iMovie HD. As I write this I realize I don't know the version of Quicktime I'm using in Tiger. I have to boot to the external drive to do the archiving.
I was wondering if maybe the driver for the camera has changed between OS X versions. Is this something that would be stored in a Quicktime support directory or in an OS X directory? Can I move something from the Tiger install to get this to work in Leopard?
Where do I begin to troubleshoot what is obviously a software problem.

"Square" pixels versus "rectangular" issue.
When viewing DV files in QuickTime the size used to be reported as 640X480 (NTSC here) instead of 720X480.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302955
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