P2 Project - can't import.

Hello,
I might just tell my story, and see if someone clever can spot the problems in this workflow, and hopefully tell me why I can't import my P2 footage into FCP.
Two weeks ago we shot a feature length musical festival doco with 5 HVX202 Cameras. All cameras shot at 720/50p except one that shot at 720/25p.
We had about three 8 gig and two 16 gig cards per camera. These were all run to our base-station and downloaded into two powerbooks connected to 1 TB firewire 800 drives.
There was also a brand spankin' Mac Pro networked to those drives on which some (not all) of the footage was viewed by our producers on the day. Apparently, it all played back fine. The Mac Pro had FCS 2 installed, and I believe it was running 10.4.10. (A late version of Tiger definately)
The MacPro has now flown back to Sydney, all the cameras and stores are back to the rental houses, and all I have are my 1.2 TB of footage, my powermac, my FCS1 and some very anxious producers whose calls I'm avoiding (for the moment).
My problem is that I can't import any of my footage. After going to the import>panasonic p2 option, my clip thumbnails display, but as soon as I try to import or import all, I get the message: "One or two clips failed to import; Probable incomplete or corrupt clips", which I refuse to believe, because of the successful playback our TD said he had on the Mac Pro.
The cards were copied to HD using Apple's recommendations - copy the lastclip.txt and contents folder into a new folder on the destination drive.
They are now arranged in folders named "Cam A Card 001" "Cam A Card 002"etc.
The apple documents I've read so far regarding this are the "Late-Breaking News
About Final Cut Pro 5" Document that outlines the benefits of each upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1.4, and the "Workflow for Final Cut Pro and the Panasonic AG-HVX200 HD Camera". I might have missed something.
Other complicating factors include -
After the shoot, I upgraded my system in the hope of editing this film at home. I went from 10.3.9 to 10.5, from 1 gb of RAM to 3 gb and from the production suite to FCS1. (I did a clean install).
I know it's a relatively cheap upgrade to FCS2, but I'm not getting any coin from the production until I cut something, so I'd prefer to avoid this if I can. I'm currently broke, and the deadline looms.
Anyway.
Was just wondering if anyone had any bright ideas that might help me?
Codecs, updates, settings, wisdom, kind words. Anything.
Thanks for your time,
Bill.

#36 - One or More P2 files failed to import.
Shane's Stock Answer #36 - "One or more clips failed to import..."
Very often in the field with this camera the camera operator will delete clips from the P2 card that they just don't like. That is the beauty of this camera. But, the still for that video file (located in the CLIP folder in the CONTENTS folder)...the still that you see when you are in the P2 Import window...is not deleted. So you will see the image, and the name, but the video file would have been deleted.
What you can do it compare the file names in the VIDEO folder and CLIP folder and see if anything is missing. If something is, then you know what the problem is. You can then just import the rest a few at time, skipping that one.
ALSO...in the P2 Import window...in the P2 Browser, there is a little sprocket drop down menu. Click on that and choose PREFERENCES. Uncheck REMOVE PULLDOWN and then try importing again. This fixes a lot of import issues.
Now...out of STOCK ANSWER mode here...
If you go FCS 2, DO NOT UPGRADE FCP to 6.0.2...this breaks the import options. You are having enough issues as it is. Upgrading to Leopard wouldn't have solved this issue...it might make things worse as it isn't fully tested with FCP. But, try what I suggest and report back.
Shane

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