[missing] DV Firewire

I am just now trying to hookup a firewire deck to load and edit on my Powerbook. I am using the JVC dv3000 deck. I can not see or hear anything in Final Cut 4.5 but I can control the deck. If I go to iMovie, I can see and hear the video as well as control the deck. I'm guessing this would be solved by changing the settings, but can't find anything that seems to work.
Another note - in the log & capture window, the preview is "disabled" & when I go to the capture settings (set to DV) it says that the DV codec? is [missing].
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

OK - here's a list of stuff
QuickTime 7.11
Mac OS X 10.4.6
Powerbook 1.5 GHz Power PC 4, 512 mb sdram
Final Cut Pro HD 4.5
Edit Deck - JVC br-dv3000, going into built in firewire port (left side)
Gtech graid drive with Gtech firewire card (card slot, right side)
I can see and hear the video from the JVC deck when in iMovie... but no audio or video in Final Cut. I have tried using the Firewire NTSC setting in Final Cut (template) and then a duplicate of that setting using the Firewire NTSC basic setting. I have the capture/input set to DV NTSC 48 kHz. The capture window has bars and "preview disabled' text across the bars.
In the video/audio settings, capture preset is DV NTSC 48 kHz. Device Control Preset is set to Firewire NTSC copy (using the firewire basic setting.) Video playback is set to none and the audio playback is set to built-in audio.
Under the Capture window (set to DV NTSC 48 kHz) has this warning :
WARNING: Video Device DV Video is missing.
DCR-TRV900 using NTSC
29.97 frames per second
DV - NTSC at Best quality.
24 bits per pixel
720 by 480
Using DV Audio for audio input
Input: First 2 channels
Rate: 48.000 kHz
Speaker: off
Volume: 100, Gain: 0
Under Device Control (which works in Final Cut) has this info:
Use this preset when controlling your NTSC DV device through FireWire.
Protocol: Apple FireWire Basic
Time Source: DV Time
Frame Rate: 29.97
Use Non-Drop frame timecode by default
Do not use deck search mechansism
Pre-roll: 3 seconds
Post-roll: 3 seconds
Capture Offset: 0.000 frames
Handle Size: 00:00:00:00
Playback Offset: 00:00:00:00
Thoughts?

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Hi all,
I've read tons on this but can't find a solution...please help.
I needed to output a spot to miniDV for a station (haven't needed to do this in quite a while) but when I start up to output there's the "(missing) Apple FireWire NTSC (720 x 480)" message.
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Woops! Thanks for replying.
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