Problems recognising camera/videos

I'd held off buying my first camcorder until iMovie was fully compatible so a couple of months ago I bought a Panasonic HDC-SD9. It worked well with iMovie 08 after the patch. The camera - while good - is a pain to connect to your laptop: you need AC power which means you need to take the battery off. No surprise, I decided to buy a card reader instead.
This worked fine and iMovie 08 would see the card as a camera and let you import as intended. I've upgraded to iMovie 09 and now it can't see the camera. I've tried importing from "Import>Movies..." but it doesn't recognise the file type!
Is this just me, or will I have to wait 6 months for a patch again. I hope this is just a dot release bug but any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Thank you!
Not surprisingly, the oldest trick worked - restarting the computer.
I'll repair permissions too, and reformat the card - something I never bothered to do when I bought it.
All is well.

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