Import fails for movies on Intel Macbook

Importing with iPhoto on my MacBook fails on the first movie it encounters every time.
The movies are 30 second AVI files from a Canon Ixus v3 connected via USB. The import will show no progress for about 5 minutes and then apparently time out. It returns to the iPhoto library and neither the movie nor subsequent content are there.
The same combination of camera, cable, photos & movies works perfectly on other computers, a 17" 1GHz Powerbook and and a 17" 1GHz iMac.
The same CF Flash card, photos & movies work fine on the MacBook using a CF-USB card reader.
Using Image Capture on the MacBook instead iPhoto worked once but every other time it has behaved just like iPhoto. It times out and fails to import that first movie or any subsequent content.
I created a new user on the MacBook and tried importing with iPhoto in there and the same failure occured.
I reset the PRAM and tried again to no avail.
I worked through all this with the AppleCare phone support with no success. The support person consulted senior technicians for a couple of minutes and came back to me with their opinion - that it is probably an incompatibility betwen iPhoto, the Intel Mac and the Canon Ixus v3 ie. the specific combination of those three things.
They suggest that it's not a USB issue because iPhoto imports perfectly using the CF-USB card reader. They believe it's not an iPhoto software installation issue for the same reason. It's not a preferences issue because it also failed with a new user and the PRAM reset didn't help.
They apologized for not finding a solution for me and could only offer the workaround of using the CF card reader. That's not such a bad work around but I'd still like to persist if anyone can suggest any further troubleshooting or possible solutions. I'd also like to see "me too" posts from anyone who has had the same issue.

I have had a similar problem, where maye 8 out of 10 AVI format moves will download into iPhoto, but the rest simply never get there. I did get 107 out of 109 files OK but have seen worse. I can tell you about which camera it is, how I connect and so on, but first, this:
A small sidebar in the Bugs & Fixes column of the April, 2007 Macworld magazine (see page 89) mentions that: "the likely cause is a problematic third-party QuickTime Plug-in." and advises the reader to check for and remove plug-ins not installed by OSX.
I took the same camera and imported all 109 pics from my camera on a separate account of the same machine (20" i-mac but I don't think this is relevant) and got all 109 f 109 files just fine.
So, I think "problematic third party QT plug-ins may be a good call. Need to investigate this some more, but its a flaky problem and Macs are supposed to "just plain work".

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I'm kind of confused because the only settings I could find on the Handycam for audio are 12 khz and 16 khz, and though I think I filmed them at 12, I've captured the footage at both within FCE... I'm not sure either have shown any probs when imported at 48 khz as yet. Not sure if that's because they are a multiple of 48 or I just got lucky. Either way, 1) does the audio bit rate the footage was captured at (12 khz) change to 16 if changed on the camcorder (or is it solely what the original was filmed in, period) prior to capture on FCE, 2) and if so or if not, how serious of a problem will it pose, if I do nothing and keep the FCE settings at the normal NTSC 48khz, in later stages of production considering there will be a lengthy timeline?
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I have had a similar problem, where maye 8 out of 10 AVI format moves will download into iPhoto, but the rest simply never get there. I did get 107 out of 109 files OK but have seen worse. I can tell you about which camera it is, how I connect and so on, but first, this:
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