IMovie09 Hangs when importing 3 minute .MOV recorded from iPhone 3GS,

Hi All,
Ok, so I have had a quick search to solve this but had no luck, and I am a Mac newbie, so please be gentle
Here is my problem - I recorded one of my kids singing a song with my iPhone, sync'd this up with iTunes, converted it to iPod compatible within iTunes (for the iPod video to be able to chew it).
Now, we have an xmas idea for the grandparents, that we can get both kids singing songs, video them and give the grandparents a dvd for xmas
Hurdle 1: When I try to import the .MOV or the converted for iPod Video friendly version into iMovies, I get the beachball/hourglass.. The video that I'm trying to import is 3.4 mins in length - I tried several times, and this morning left it running when I left for work, so it has had 13 hours of processing and no joy, so I have had to force app to exit again... (Hey, I though macs just 'worked', what's this ctrl-alt-del stuff :P )
This is the first time I have loaded iMovie and I have tried logging in with a new account too in case something has got mashed with my main account.
The mac is 3 months old and I am still finding out what apps it has
Thanks for any help / pointers My backup plan (already working) is to continue on my windows PC, as that seems to quite happily play with the .MOV file etc, but I would rather use the mac as it should be better geared for this stuff But tbh I am struggling already to get the mac to do it's thing - I thought iphone -> mac would just 'work'
Oh..I have installed nothing else on the mac apart from snow leopard & configured email accounts and the iMac came with iLife 09 installed.
ty in advance
Andy

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I didn't have iPhoto launching when i connected my iPhone, but I've launched it manually now.
This time, in iMovie, I have 48 images appearing in 'iPhoto videos' under the event section of iMovie.
Is this the correct behaviour ? Or should I only see one image to represent the video (Asking because if I have 3-4 movies on the iphone, I will have a lot of thumbnail images in the event window I think.
Just for the sake of it, I tried importing the video again ( to see if things worked after using iPhoto), and iMovie still beachballs, but if I can use the iPhoto method that is fine, although it seems odd behaviour to be presented with 48 'images' of the same movie.
Would I need to run everything through iPhoto before it appears in iMovie ? I'm guessing that the import movie selection doesnt work..
Thanks for replying, and feel free to point out any newbie basics that I am misunderstanding
Andy

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