Prolems wih importing from a Canon ZR 45

I have been importing DV into various verions of iMovie for several year from my little ZR-45. For the most part, performance has always been great.
However, for the last 6 months, or so, I have experienced problems. I am no longer able to control my camcorder from the iMovie program for importing program material from tapes. Several months ago it began to do this and I found that I could work around the problem by hitting the icon for "import" on the screen and then follow with manually starting the camera to play the program into iMovie.
Then the problems became worse. First, I was having problems with iMovie only importing a few minutes and stopping. Sometimes, I had to start importing a number of times to finally get the material into my computer.
Today, I haven't been able even get by with the manual "work-around". iMovie will not import at all.
I have always up-graded iMovie as sussessive versions came out. So, I have to ask: Are these latest versions of iMovie too advanced, and no longer compatable with my ZR-45? Or, is there some setting that I might not have right causing the problems. I've tried to find settings to change this perfrmance, but with no success.
Currently, I just can't import. Also, I find that I can't import tothe current version of FCE. This sort of causes me to have doubts concerning teh performance of my camcoder.
Bill Livesay

I am having the exact same problems importing from my Sony HDV Camera. It is my understanding that about 6 months ago when I (and you) upgraded to a newer version of iMovie it screwed something up in the system. I spent 2 hours on the phone with 4 different mac service reps about 4 months ago trying to get help but they kept blaming my brand new $2000 Sony Camera. I heard there is a patch that will fix this, but I haven't found it. Will you please let me know if you find the solution. It is driving me crazy. Thanks

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