IMovie still fails to import H.264 properly

With the release of 10.6.3 and iMovie 8.0.6 I made a new try importing H.264 1080i50 from my Samsung HMX-H105. See the following thread for the old discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1997748
In the current release,
1) Importing without optimizing, the aspect ratio is wrong inside iMovie as before
2) Importing with Optimize Full gives an AIC file with the correct resolution
3) Importing with Optimize Large gives an AIC file with the wrong resolution (1706x504)
Problems with 2) are that the conversion takes time, quality is degraded and file size is increased.
Playback in QT Player has changed in 10.6.3. Motion blur is now added and the interlacing is a lot less visible when I play the original files from the camera.
Does anyone know which parts of H.264/AVC are properly implemented in iMovie?
Can I add anything to my system to alter the way iMovie handles H.264?
Are there other editing software for the Mac with better H.264 support?
/jonas

This is me replying with a different AppleID. It's a long story...
Anyway, thanks for your help. I converted to AIC using MPEG Streamclip as you described. The resulting looks the same or very close to the the original when played in QT, and the file can be imported into iMovie without the problems that I get with the original H.264 file.
So, I wonder why QT and MPEG Streamclip can read the file while iMovie fails to do it properly?
About Apple's list of camcorders. The Samsung HMX-H105 is very recently released and I would have been surprised if it had been on Apples list. Surely there must be cameras NOT on the list with H.264 files that import to iMovie? It would be nice to understand better why some H.264 file import ok and some do not.
Have Apple published the H.264 profiles and levels that it is compatible with? Isn't Quicktime used for importing?
Will going through AIC significantly decrease the quality of my recordings, it will be a re-compress using MPEG2, right? I noticed that IMovie was a lot snappier working with AIC compared to H.264 (at least with my partially failed import), that is a plus. The file size, of course, is not.
From MPEG Streamclip, I get the following file info of the original. Is there anything in it that stands out as peculiar? Why 25 fps and not 50i or something?
Stream: HDV_0004.MP4
Path: ~/Desktop/HDV_0004.MP4
Duration: 0:00:43
Data Size: 89.34 MB
Bit Rate: 17.09 Mbps
Video Tracks:
SAMSUNG AVC encoder

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