Importing Movs instead of MPEGs

I'm using Premiere Pro CS3 and recently I've had a problem with the program crashing. I noticed that the clips' thumbnails on the timeline were red (even though they were rendered) and then when I scrubbing on the timeline Premiere would crash. Also, the farther along I got in the project the more often Premiere crashed. Just opening the file would make Premiere crash.
I've searched all the forums and the web as much as possible and the only thing that seemed to be a common problem was the MPEG footage that was imported from my camera. Now MOVs are my preference but it seems to me that the preset is for MPEGs. Am I wrong? And if I am, how do I tell Premiere that I want import MOVs instead? The footage shot is NTSC, 1080i, 29.97 frames per second, 1440 X 1080.
Thanks for your help,
Stuart

Thanks for the reply Lee
I hadn't changed the import setting at all from the default (always worked
ok in LR3). The strange thing is that it has imported all the pics in
sequence 321,322 but only some of them are JPEGs - completely random. I
checked the drive where they were imported and it has imported about 2/3
RAW and 1/3 JPEG so I checked the card to make sure something weird hadn't
happened to it and sure enough the card contains all the RAW and JPG files.
I had already started editing about a third of the files before I realised
so I did a new import using LR3 and then deleted the import from LR4 and
then did the 'find file' thingy in LR4 which still found the JPGs.. so I
moved the JPGs to another folder and did the 'find file' thingy again and
this time had to select the matching RAW file... quite time consuming but
it worked!
Just wondering if this is a bug? It didn't happen with the previous import
with all settings the same.
Thanks again

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