New User Question: Transferring Project from PC to Mac

Hello All:
I'm hoping someone can give me a little advice. I just made the switch to Mac last week and I'm struggling a bit.
I have a large (full length feature film) project that I had been working on using a PC (Pinnacle Studio). The editing was 90% complete. However, it became necessary at this point to switch over to the Mac.
I rendered the project as an AVI file and was able to open it using Final Cut Express. However the guy at the Mac store told me that I would lose some quality doing it that way and that the best thing to do would be to re-capture the footage from the DV tapes directly into the Mac.
Okay. So here's my first question: Is there really no other way to do this without losing video quality? (It would mean a major set-back in our schedule and many, many hours of re-editing what has already been done.)
If I must re-capture the video, then I will do so - but I just want to make sure it's the right thing to do before I commit myself.
I'd appreciate any advice.

Thank you for responding Tom. I was pretty much resolved to doing that anyway. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't another way.
I have another question - I captured my first DV tape to the Mac.
During capture, the process stopped at every individual shot and went back frame by frame "locating timecode break". Once the tape was done - it automatically separated each shot into individual clips.
This is fine. But the problem is that there are now several seconds missing from the beginning of each shot. Some of the shorter clips are only a couple frames long because the majority of video was not captured.
How do I tell Final Cut to simply capture the entire tape as one long clip? I can separate the shots myself.
I appreciate the help - and sorry if I'm asking really obvious questions.

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