Sound lost by Importing IN iMovie

I have some small films from a dicital still camera (Sony DSC-T1) in a .MPG format on my HD. I´d like to get them together in iMovie, so I´ve tried to import them. I´ve got the pictures (film) but the sound was lost. So I`ve tried to save the films with QuicktimePro 7 in to an other format (.MOV,.MPEG-4,.DV,...) but with no of these exports the sound stayed with.
Have you an idea what i could do to save the sound???

http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
BTW, converting MPEG to DV/MOV the mother of all FAQs here Sadly the FAQ section of the forum decribes just the problem, not any solutions. And searching the forums doesn't always work either.
ObSig: I don't benefit from the link.

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