QuickTime files sending my movie crazy

Hi all,
I've imported 7 small QuickTime files of about 2MB each to make a short movie but weird things are happening that are preventing me making the movie. In a nutshell, here's a list of the sequence of events that are happening:
1. When I import the clips, I get a warning saying "The clip does not match this sequence's settings...Change sequence settings to match the clip's settings?". I click Yes.
2. When I add Cross Dissolves, I get repeated warnings about dropped frames and the dissolve won't play until it is rendered
3. The RT drop-down menu in the Timeline changes to show only three options (Play Base Layer only; Use Playback Settings; Full Quality). Don't know if this is relevant.
Any ideas of what's going on?
Thank you,
Andrew

OK, I've given MPEG Streamclip a go. I couldn't find a conversion option for ProRes, so selected the first one in the list after going to File > Export as..., which was Export to QuickTime... (there were also options for AVI; MPEG-4, etc). Hope I chose the right one.
Anyway, after converting, the specs still say that the clip is a QuickTime Movie, but it's gone from 2MB to 28MB. Codecs are now Motion JPEG A.
Have I chosen the right conversion option?

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