Importing Camera Archive

I have a homemade DVD, in my Mac and when I import "Camera Archive"
It imports fine, but I need to Edit some parts, so I import the Clips, and they show up in a ramdom order, (not from the beggining to the end).
Draging them to put them in order is almost impossible, so my Question is:
Is there a way to Import Camera Archive and made them show in the right sequence?.
I will try to make myself understood, so imagine the file Camera Archive has files
from 1 to 16 and when Imported they show up 7,9,4..... whith no sequence.
Could someone please light my way?
Thanks

Well, interesting thing upon further research.
All my AVCHD archives were in a standard folder under Movies->iMovie Camera Archives. Within that folder there is folder after folder of archives. I can see them just fine in Finder.
When I go to the "iMovie Camera Archives" folder in iMovie it says: "iMovie Camera Archives.localized" and NONE of those sub-folders show up. I copied one of the archives to my desktop and it imported perfectly fine. So it's something odd about the iMovie Camera Archives folder itself that is preventing me from importing all those archives. Odd. Thanks!

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