Sony EX1 Footage – codec?

Have some footage that is supposedly from a Sony PMW EX1 camera. Some of the files have digital glitching (blocky images, spurts of bad audio noise). The footage is glitched in the Sony media browser and in Premiere Pro CS6. When scrubbing a sequence with this footage, it occasionally gets red and blue spots.
This sounds like a codec issue to me, but I can't find any update for this format. Has anyone else here encountered this issue with EX1 footage?
Production Premium CS6
Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit
i7-2600k
16GB memory
2GB GTX 560 Ti

Also here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1009064?start=50&tstart=60
and
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4497065#4497065
The problem also affects Cannon XF camera footage. We've been working with Adobe Support for several weeks trying to get them to provide us with a working licence for CS5.5 until they fix the issue. There has been no help yet. They had me send a sample clip in, then told me what I already knew, that there was nothing wrong with the footage.
I'm glad word of this has spread to the Creative Cow forums. I'm sure there are lots of users out there who think that it is their camera that has the issue. The more people that know about the issue, the more Adobe will be held to accountability.
I'm really surprised by the poor experience we've had with CS6. I've been a user since before Premiere Pro, and I've never encountered such a show stopping issue with the software.
I can't believe that they don't have this listed for users as a known issue either. It should be in a FAQ list until resolved.

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