No audio when exporting to iMovie

I've been trying to take movies I made with our Sony digital camera, exporting them through quicktime to iMovie, but in changing the movie to MPEG4 it loses its audio and in fact, when I go to convert the from MPEG1 to MPEG4, the info window tells me "no audio track in source movie." (even though there is sound when played in quicktime).
I have looked through everything I can find, but I can't seem to find an answer. Are movies taken with a digital camera not sophisticated enough to be used in iMovie complete with the really great audio we were able to capture?
At this point, I'm thinking I need to give up on iMovie and just combine movies in quicktime pro. Can anyone please advise me before I go crazier than I already am?
Thanks..........
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