Need an app to import avchd into FCP 5.1

I've been running FCP 5.1 on a G5 in 10.5.8 for a long time, and always been able to do everything I wanted to with it. However, my tape video cameras are dying one by one, always with failure of the tape drives. Tape is dead. Time to move on to AVCHD videocams.
So, if I am going to eventually have to move to an AVCHD videocam, the problem is that FCP 5 does not import video from AVCHD videocameras, only from tape.
This means that I am either going to have to find some app that will import AVCHD from a videocam, and convert it into a form that FCP 5 can use, or else I'm going to have to move up from FCP 5 to FCP 6 or 7, which will also necessitate moving from the G5 to a Mac Pro box. Which also means that my Adobe CS2 software will not work anymore. Jumping up to an Intel box from PPC could get very expensive due to all the software upgrades necessary.
So to start with, I'm investigating the least painful solution, which would be to find some app in 10.5.8 that I can import AVCHD from a camcorder into, and then move the video from that app to FCP 5.
Can anyone suggest such an app? Or is this a vain hope?
Tom

Thanks Shane. I believe FCP 6 will import AVCHD. If I were to buy a used Mac Pro from someplace like Ebay, and switch from FCP 5 to FCP 6 (which is much cheaper than buying 7), and continue to run 10.5.8, would that not solve my problem?
This assumes Mac Pro boxes can run 10.5.8. Can they?
If they can, then that seems like the least expensive way to acquire a version of FCP that can import AVCHD.
Unless there is some other fatal flaw in this reasoning.

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