Imported Sony MXF files are only 3 frames long.

I recently got a new system with Win7, CS4, and Matrox Axio LE. I have the latest Axio utilities installed and I installed the 4.2 version of Premiere Pro. I also installed the Sony XDCAM drivers for the PDW-U1 disc reader and the proxy videos play fine.
I have imported the same MXF files on an older, slower, less RAM, XP PRO system using CS3 without any problems.
The video was shot with a Sony PDW-F355 XDCAM HD at 35Mbit.
I'm curious if I'm missing a codec, driver, or something similar. I did get a "DirectShow" error at one point.
If anyone has any ideas, even ridiculous ones, I'm willing try anything.
Thanks.
Jason

Squared 5 info:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
The above is free and can do a lot of video transcoding.
"Progressive footage do you mean 1080p? "
Yes that's correct.
Interlaced means 2 fields of video working together to display one frame.
The TV/Monitor scans lines 1,3,5,7,9 and so on for the first field then 2,4,6,8 for the next to create the frame.
Progressive displays one frame without this interlacing.
At 1080 you must use Interlaced eg. 1920 x 1080i.
Quicktime itself is like a container that holds stuff, think of a tin can and you decide what to put in there.
Quicktime holds lots of differing types of CoDecs (Compression/Decompression).
Codecs conform to exact standards and FCE understands some of them.
That's why whatever you use or transcode a file to, must conform to an FCE Easy Setup so it works seamlessly.
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