Importing AVCHD Light into FCE cuts duration by half - plays 2x speed

I just got a new Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera. It films in AVCHD Light format.
When I import the video with Final Cut Express 4.0.1 using the Log and Transfer the duration is cut in half and the resulting import plays at 2 times the speed and the audio is out of sync. The audio is not playing at 2x speed.
The clips play fine in the Log and Transfer preview menu.
If I open the source MTS file in VLC it has the following attributes
Codec H264
Resolution: 1280x720
Frame rate 119.880120
The frame rate shown in VLC seems to be incorrect. The camera manual says that it records in 60fps but VLC seems to show that it is double that.
I have converted some clips to mp4 using handbrake and handbrake seems to be fine with the Camera's MTS file and the resulting mp4 is fine.
So I am confused if FCE can't handle it or maybe the Camera's MTS files are marked in some way with the incorrect fps.

The final cut Express documentation seems to say that 60 fps it is supported. After some googling around I am getting conflicting answers.
I ended up using imovie to convert to AIC and FCE seems to be ok with it now. It looks like imovie brought it down to 30 fps.
I am a video newb so I am not sure what is going on.

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