Macs do not recognise camcorder

Hi, I work in a large school in England we have 12 new v 10.6.2 and FCP v 6.0.1.
We have a sony HDV 1080i HDR-FX7 camcorder and various small handheld sony DCR HC51's and some canon and psonics.
The high end students are making film with the HDV camcorder but we cannot get the footage off the camera.
Students have filmed in standard DV not HDV.
When I Plug the I link cable in this appears on the LCD screen saying that it has been inserted.
I have turned the ilink conv to off and used DV pal in easy set up but it is not recognised. i have also tried 1080I after dumping presets but this does not work either.
Finally I have tried putting the MiniDV's into the smaller cameras. The playback is fine but as soon as I link it to FCP and start capturing the images becomes blocky/pixalated and then stops capturing saying the tape may be damaged and cannot be viewed, however it still plays clearly on all of the cameras.
The camera is also not being recognised in IMovie.
Can anyone help with this?
If not is there another method for me to capture the footage?
Kind regards,
Shane.

Firs trash your preferences, Trying lots of different settings is a good way to corrupt them.
Set the camera to output DV, not auto, not HDV. Set iLink on. iLink is used for DV capture. Connect the camera with no other devices connected (except keyboard and mouse). Set the FCP settings to DV 48k PAL Anamorphic. Is the camera recognized? If no, check System Profiler for your FireWire bus. If yes, open log and capture. What happens?

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