Log & Transfer with Mac OS 10.6.2

Having previously had a fully working, and it has to be said impressive, installation of FCE 4.0.1 I attempted to ingest some new footage recently. I had not used FCE for about 3 months as I had no need to.
FCE started up great and I was able to create a new project as well; but when I opened the Log & Transfer window and attempted to add the folder I'd copied from the camera's SD card, nothing. The folder name does not appear as the source at the top of the window and no files appear in the top list pane.
Now to troubleshoot here's my line of thought:-
1. The latest footage is corrupt.
2. The system has changed since Iast used FCE. (This is true and I will come to this soon)
3. The FCE install is corrupted.
So here's what I've done to address each of the above steps.
1. I returned to the last footage I'd successfully ingested and I could not add that footage's folder to the L&T window either, as a precaution I then trashed the preferences and tried again, still no good.
2. As stated above my system has changed as since the last time I used FCE I've upgraded to Mac OS 10.6 and subsequently 10.6.2 also I've installed Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0. So to troubleshoot this I needed a test bed and so used a spare internal SATA drive as a new Startup Drive and performed the following.
i. Erased the drive and re-formated as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
ii. Installed Mac OS 10.5.
iii. Patched 10.5 with three iterations of Software Update.
iv. Installed FCE 4.0.
v. Patched FCE to 4.0.1.
vi. Tested FCE and it worked perfectly, interesting but not the solution I would like.
vii. Installed Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 and then tested FCE and it worked perfectly.
viii. Updated Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 and then tested FCE and it worked perfectly.
ix. Upgraded Mac OS to 10.6 and then tested FCE and it failed to add folders to the L&T pane.
x. Patched Mac OS to 10.6.2 with three more iterations of Software Update and then tested FCE and it failed to add folders to the L&T pane.
Ok a short pause in the overly detailed breakdown of what has occurred (I don't want anybody to be in any doubt as to my veracity in troubleshooting).
So as far as the above sequence is concerned Mac OS 10.6.x does not support FCE and AVCHD media, as an added 'feature' after two attempts at adding a path to the footage FCE crashes completely.
Maybe a 'clean' clean install is what is needed.
xi. Erased the drive and re-formated as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) again.
xii. Installed Mac OS 10.6 and patched with three iterations of Software Update.
xiii. Installed FCE 4.0 and patched with Software Update to 4.0.1.
xiv. Tested FCE and it still will not add a path to any media and crashes after a handful of attempts at getting it to do so.
So the third of possible causes i.e. FCE install corrupted is excluded as cause 2 Mac OS problems are the culprit.
Am I the only person with a professional spec (albeit a little long in the tooth, yet very capable) machine; built with the latest OS as per manufacturers recommendations; FCE software installed as per best practice and the media stored on a dedicated drive in the AVHCD file structure (as a footnote the software will not "see" the camera either) who is unable to use FCE as it will not do what it says on the tin. Unless the tin is 10.5.
Spleen vented is anybody able to help?

Impressive - you've been very methodical & thorough - I wish most posts were as thoroughly detailed as yours! But something else is going on. I have FCE 4.0.1 on 10.6.2 and it's working perfectly; ditto for a lot of other people here.
You mentioned that you +"attempted to add the folder I'd copied from the camera's SD card"+ - have you tried Log&Transfer directly from your camcorder? If not, try that and let us know what happens (or not).
When you copied that folder from your SD card, did you copy the +entire folder structure+ (all the way from the root of the SD card) or just the folder containing the video? That could be the problem (you need the entire folder structure for AVCHD video, not just the folder containing the MTS files.) What camcorder are you using?

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