Inconsistent Importing

Hi,
Hi,
I'm using Premiere CS5 and am having problems importing footage. I had to convert videos that were using the Apple Intermediate Codec to AVI The clips play fine with a video player like Media Player Classic. I created a project using the DV - NTSC preset. When I drag the clips I want to use, they only show up as audio files. But I was able to get one video to work on one project, but the rest just import the audio. Then I created a new project and got one different videeo clip to work while the rest are all just audio. Then I went back to the first project that had the one clip working but now it's just acting like an audio file. So clearly Premiere CS5 can work with these clips, but I can't seem to get all the imported clips working and stay working..
And when I do have a clip working, when i try importing more I get the Error message 'Unsupported format or damaged file" I know the format is supported because all the videos have the same properties, and i know they're not damaged because I've gotten some to work.
Also, when I do get a video working, sometimes it's both a video and audio clip and sometimes it's just video like others are just audio. And when I double click the clip that only shows up as a video file, I can hear the audio in the source cilp window
And when i go back to a project that did hav e the video working, the file shows up as offline when it looked and sounded fine before closing the project.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
Media Player Classic gave me this information on the videos:
General
Complete name                    : E:\matt amanda wedding\! CONVERTED\CEREMONY CONVERTED\Clip #7.avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO 50
Format profile                   : OpenDML
File size                        : 18.1 GiB
Duration                         : 44mn 52s
Overall bit rate                 : 57.8 Mbps
Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO 50
Codec ID                         : dv50
Codec ID/Hint                    : DVCPro5
Duration                         : 44mn 52s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 48.8 Mbps
Width                            : 720 pixels
Height                           : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 29.970 fps
Standard                         : NTSC
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:2
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 4.715
Stream size                      : 18.0 GiB (100%)
Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 2
Codec ID                         : 50
Duration                         : 44mn 52s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Stream size                      : 82.2 MiB (0%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 24 ms (0.72 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration     : 24 ms

Since the media given to you (AIC) are themselves conversions, I'd recommend getting your hands on the originals.

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