IMovie Trouble Importing

I have had my Pro for awhile and importing has been fine with my Canon HF10 Camera. Normally, I just plug my 8GB SDHC card into the USB adapter and open iMovie and it automatically brings up the importing screen. However, today I tried to import some new footage and it at first processed it but then it stopped and never finished generating thumbnail images and the importing menu came up blank. I ejected my SDHC card and tried again and now there is no recognition of my card in iMovie. My MacBook Pro still detects it but I cant import my clips now. Any thoughts?
Thx Mike

I found I've got a similar issue. I have been shooting on the internal memory of the HF10 for a while with no issues importing directly via the camera. I recently tried recording directly to the SDHC card (8GB cl4) which appeared to be fine, but iMovie '08 refuses to see the items available to import.
What I noticed was that while the internal memory shows the AVCHD folder at the root of the "drive," the SDHC card shows a "Private" folder. If I open the Private folder, I find the AVCHD folder and then inside is the usual array of folders and files.
If I move the AVCHD folder to the top level of the drive, iMovie '08 sees the clips with no problem, but then the camera reports no clips on the card.
What gives?

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