Sony TVR120E is no longer detected by iMovie (4 - 5)

A combination that worked fine in the past (my camcorder and Panther with previous version of iMovie) does result in "No camera detected" in Tiger with IMovie 5.0.2. I have tried a many of the suggestions presented in the many threads in this forum, except for buying a new firewire cable. (The cable has not been removed from the iMac in the past, but today I have re-started (and waited) with cable and/or running camera (un)attached.
An accompanying symptom is, however, that System Profiler simply lists one Firewire bus, and my iMac has two busses, with one of them a cable attached.
Has someone already found a definite solution (the Garageband trick did not help and neither the strict sequence of starting up and lauching iMovie) ?

Good question David.
I need more info. Did you upgrade from iLif4 or is this a fresh iLife install or only imovie HD install?
I could afford to make a mistake in my experiments because I've got another mac to fall back on. I could do a fresh OS install & try again. So I don't want to give you info that may make it worse.
Having said that, here is what is working for me now. I trashed all references to iLife 5 & reinstalled from disk. Imovie remains at 5.0 only. As I've said in other posts, 5.01 & 5.02 brought on the problems rather than improve things.
Of course, then do all the usuall utlity things .....
iDVD 5.01. iPhoto 5.01. iTunes 4.7.1. Quicktime 7.01. iMovie 5.0
I may try to update all except iMovie 5.0
I updated to Quicktime 7.01, although 7.0 worked fine for me too.
Last time I updated iPhoto, all photos were greyed out. They became .tiff
I've got every version of imovie 2.1.2 onwards. Even the infamous 3.0x works well.
I'm just completing an 18min. project for a video production house with imovie 2.1.2 Why? Because it's alot quicker all round.
"Just occurred to me I downloaded a safari update today!! force of habit really because I've settled on Firefox!"
Can't help you with internet stuff. I only use the imac for video related stuff. If we were talking PC, I would say "REVERT " to a previous config. Mac's don't have that useful feature.
Let me know if I can be of more help with these stupid problems.
Mark

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