Sony HDR FX7 doesn't work with Final Cut 5.1 Help

Hi there.
I'm looking for some help. I"ve purchased the Sony HDR FX 7 today and took a few shots with it. I've connected the camera to my G5 and was tryingt to capture the movies I've recorded. Nothing seems to work.
Can someone please give me some help. I'm lookin for some very basic info on how to connect the camera and how to set it up with FCP. I am going to my one to one lesson but it's only on Friday next week. So I am hoping that I can learn some basics with you folks before I spend 1 week in vain.
Is there a link or some sort of study material on how to properly connect/set up/download and /or capture the video from this camcorder.
I'm really hoping that I could find something useful to get this process going. Right now I'm stuck, I can't capture the video. It tells me something about the timecode is out of range. When I try to capture now it says that the camera is not connected. But I see the video playing.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Z1user Thank you for your reply and I hope you and your wife have fun.
I was supposed to have fun too and the FX7 is my wifes present for my birthday (today) but after I've played with it for a while and ran into all kinds of problems, I have fun no more.
Oh well, here are the details.
I have Final Cut Pro 5.1
The camera is Sony HDR FX7
I've connected it thru Firewire 400 on the back of my G5.
If you look below and see the specs, the G5 should have no promlems capturing video.
While I was capturing the video (I followed all the steps you've recommended me) I could see on the capture screen that here an there a green line would cross the film. You know the type of lines you'd get in the old movie? Yeah, just the same. I've captured all 5 sigments I had on the miniDV and when I tried to play (I went to file-import-file, I've selected the captured clip from my internal HD where the FCP put the files). The file opened in browser. And then it open in preview window of FCP (sorry I'm very new to FCP so I may be using wrong terms). At this point the clip that is 1 minute long would play for 2-4 second and end there. The quality of it was also very, very put (and I filed it at HD 1080i, may be even 24p (not sure about 24p as I have not studied the camera well to know if I need to turn it on or it's on by defalt). So, the quality was really poor. It was the case with all 5 clips I've captured from FX7. All of them 2-4 sec. long and very poor quality.
If anyone is readying this, could you please give me some ideas where to go with this.
Thank you

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