Movies from HDD camcorder not recognized

So I have just bought a mac, my first, after many friends telling me how much better it would be for video editing/photos/multimedia in general. I have a Panasonic SDR-H200 HDD camcorder, which is listed as 'tested' on the iMovie information page, and supposedly is compatible. It uses MPEG2 compression.
I have a folder full of files from the camera, they all worked fine on my PC with multiple video players. None of the files will play on the mac, at all. iMovie just ignores them, quicktime says it's not supported.
So I looked around on the web, and came across the Quicktime MPEG2 plugin, I downloaded this ($20), now I can watch the video in quicktime, but no audio. iMovie still ignores the files.
What gives? These files played fine in Windows Media Player/Movie Maker and my old Roxio video editing software. So I know it's a software issue. Can a mac handle MPEG2 video? Otherwise I just wasted some serious cash.

iMovie does not edit MPEG2 natively. However, iMovie will import directly from a supported camera. During the import, the footage will be converted from MPEG2 to Apple Intermediate Codec.
If you hook up your camera, it should import just fine.
For existing footage that you have stored on your hard drive, there are a couple of options.
1) The MPEG Streamclip option. With MPEG Streamclip (free) (and the MPEG2 Playback component which you already have) you can convert the MPEG2 to a iMovie compatible format like DV or AIC or h.264.
2) You might be able to "fake out" iMovie into thinking that your hard drive footage is really on a camera. To do this, you will need to create a disk image of your camera, and move the footage back to the disk image. Alternatively, you could drag the footage back to your camera and import from there. Perhaps someone who has your camera can give detailed instructions for this. The disk image must have the identical file structure that your camera does. (This is how imovie knows it is a camera.)
Disk images can be created by Disk Utility, which comes with your Mac. It is found in the Applications/Utilities folder, and is also handy if you ever need to format a drive.

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