Importing Error 50 File Won't Import

Here's the 411 on my situation.
I have iMovie 4 and I'm trying to import .mov files into iMovie.
The .mov files have been copied from a much larger .avi file to be less than 9 minutes, and they're all less than 61 MB.
When I try to import certain files, it gets right to the end of importing and then a message comes up saying "Can't open file "test1.mov"; skipping and and continuing" and giving me an error message saying "Error During Import The File could not be important: (-50").
Some files it will upload, other's it won't. It's the absolutle strangest situation.
I won't want to have to convert them to DV or anything because that doubles the time it takes.
I really need some help to figure this situation out.

It takes almost twice as long if I convert it to DV using Quicktime as opposed to just importing a .mov into iMovie.
Well, since that doesn't work it can't be faster, right
I'm quite surprised it takes QT player twice the time, as iMovie is based on QT. (QT Player is just a user interface to the inner workings of QT, the same inner workings that iMovie uses.)
Download and run the stand-alone QT installer. It helped others.

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