Longer movie files won't import into iPhoto

I have a Canon PowerShot SD950IS 12.1MP Digital Camera which takes surprisingly video, and I was surprised to see that iPhoto even imports movies to begin with, but there's a glitch. Shorter movies import fine, but anything longer than a minute or two never finish importing. The camera says busy, and eventually, iPhoto stops, but the movie never shows up in the iPhoto window. Is there a limit to video size in iPhoto?
Also, I would like to import videos and photos into separate applications. Is there a way to tell iPhoto not to import or delete movies from a camera, and only work with picture files? That would simplify just using the Canon software for the movie portion (which does work).
One other thing, does iMovie work with USB now, or is it still Firewire only?
Thanks!

If you use a card reader to mount the memory card from your camera on the Mac's desktop, you can copy your videos to the hard drive by dragging and dropping, then import them into iMovie or whatever.
This suggestion presumes that when you connect the camera directly to the Mac, like most other recent Canon models, the card inside it doesn't mount on the desktop. Using a card reader will mount it. If the card does mount on the desktop when you connect the camera, just drag and drop the movies from it to the hard drive.

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