Problems opening avi into Final Cut

Hi I'm having a real problem importing some raw avi files into final cut 6 and even watching them with quicktime. The problem is, when I open them on my macbook (QT v 7.4.0) i see them fine but on my PowerPC G5 they say 'codec not supported'. I had QT 7.4.1 on the powerPC machine and assumed that was the problem so i followed the advice on these forums and downgraded to v 7.3.1 The problem is i still can't see anything! I then tried installing perian which hasn't helped. The funny thing is that in quicktime it says the format is 'dvsd' with a frame rate of 24.88 where as my macbook claims the format is 'dv' with a framerate of 25 which sounds a lot more likely to me. The installation on the macbook is pretty vanilla with standard leopard and final cut 6 so there is no fancy codecs on there opening the files. I have 34 50min episodes of this stuff and couldn't bare to sit watching my macbook spend the next month encoding it for DVD (i only need to use final cut to add a titles sequence). Any help would be much appreciated!

I know, you are correct about using a PC but i don't have one with any decent editing/DVD software on. All i need to do is delete the title sequences on the video and add one I have created using motion. Plus, i have already created all the DVD menus using DVD studio and the idea of going to and from a PC to a MAC so much makes my head start to hurt.
I think it's the fact that my macbook will open the files happily in final cut (with a little warning that 'the files are not optimised for final cut') but that my big mac won't is what i find really frustrating!

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