Importing MP1 (.mpg) movie files?

I've just started using iMovie08, and athough it was pretty impressive at pulling in all my home movies that were .Mov files, it hasn't pulled in the older movies that were recorded as .mpg files.
iPhoto seems to recognise them just fine, but iMovie won't let me import.
The only thing I've tried to limited success is to convert them in Quicktime, but then the sound track doesn't come through..?
Please can someone help?
Thnks

Now have a different problem.... I've imported them into iMovie, but when viewing these videos iMovie frequently crashes (over 5x in the last 10 minutes) and the viewing of the thumbnails is jerky.
Have not had such problems. Believe most crashing problems were traced to missing upgrades and/or conflicts with certain older QT components which needed to be updated. Only crash I've had was attempting to open iMovie '08 after about 72 hours of batch processing. Never found out what caused the crash, but re-booting the computer seemed to fix whatever was wrong. Jerky playback may or may not be indicative of more serious problems. I would make a quick project export and see if the "jerkiness" is limited previewing or affects the final output. Depending on outcome, I might check thumbnail/cache files for possible problems/corruption.

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