Shooting with the HVX200 for the first time, any advise?

I am shooting with the HVX200 for the first time. I have not decided on the format but I do ant to use one of the 1080 formats: 60i, 30p, 24p.
I am renting the camera and 16GB P2 cards. In the field. I will have a Power Mac 16.7 w/1GB ram. (It is running FCP 5.0.4 although I do not plan on importing the media into FCP on that mac.) I have an intel mac at home that runs FCP 5.1.4.
What I am planning to do is download my media using my laptop to a drive.
Back-up-media to secondary drive.
At home, import files to FCP.
I wanted to see if anyone has any feed back for me. I am the only video person at the shoot and I will have to handle the download myself. In this work plan, do you see any red-flags? Are there any video formats that do not work with FCP? How long does it take to copy media off the P2 cards to a drive? Should I rent a card reader?
Thanks for your input.
-C

1. Why 1080 instead of 720p? What is your intended delivery medium?
2. Which laptop? If a PowerBook with a Type II PC Cardbus slot, you have a different workflow than a MacBookPro with a ExpressCard/34 slot?
3. Finally, whether you mount the p2 card using firewire in the PC mode or download with a PC CardBus slot or ExpressCard/34 adapter, write protect the cards when copying.
4. Always copy the whole card including CONTENTS folder and lastclip.txt file to separate folders, ie CARDONE, CARDTWO, etc. Sometimes it is faster to copy lastclip.txt file first then CONTENTS into above noted folders. Faster.

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