Log and Transfer Refuses to Detect AVCHD Card

Hello all,
So I'm trying to get some media off of an SDHC card written by a Panasonic AG-HMC150. I take out the card, plug the card into my new Mac Pro with Final Cut Pro vers. 6.0.5, and it mounts to my desktop. I then open Log and Transfer, and nothing gets detected. If I create a drop folder on my desktop and point the path to that, nothing gets detected. So I updated to 6.0.6 and still L&T won't detect the card.
I thought it was the card, so I recreated this on another Mac Pro in the office, with only 6.0.4, and the L&T detected the card instantaneously.
I then took the card home and tried again on my MacBook Pro running 6.0.5 and it detected the card instantly.
So I'm a little amiss. I didn't set up this Mac Pro when it was installed, so I'm wondering if a setting was toggled somewhere that would prevent this Mac from detecting the card, or refusing the format. Anyone have any ideas?
OS: My MacPro - 10.5.7
Other MacPro - 10.5.4
My MacBook Pro - 10.5.7

Turn off wireless, or ethernet networking...or just wait 2-3 min...it will show up. For some reason with networking on, if there are a LOT of shared machines out there, L&T wants to scan all of them to. I think...that is my only explaination, because when I disable networking, L&T works instantly.
Shane

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