Timecodes Missing on Captured Clips?

After capturing DV clips, FCE refuses to show the timecode information. The FCE Browser window won't show the Media Start or End timecodes. Cntrl-click on the browser headings refuses to allow switching to logging vs standard view. The camcorder (Sony TRV9) is in the Apple approved list, and controls fine from the FCE capture window: even allowing specifying timecode start and end for the clip: then doing the clip capture at the correct times. captured video and audio are fine. But Edit-Item Properties on a captured clip in the Browser shows only format information: no tab for timecode data. Yet when I installed the i5m video filter to overlay timecode data on top of a video clip: it shows up correctly in the Viewer window: the timecode data is clearly in the clip file, but FCE refuses access to it! Tried trashing prefs, reinstalling FCE, using a different user account, rebooting and restarting camera, changing from NTSC firewire to firewire basic etc. OS 10.4.3 and FCE 3.0.1 are latest version of everything as of 12/19/05. Anyone else run into this?
G5 2.5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1GB RAM, 250/400GB SATA Drives

Tom: thanks: my confusion came from the Final Cut Express Help pdf file, but evidently its in error, and must be confusing FCP with FCE. I had even called Apple User Support and they thought the timecodes should show, but indicated that sometimes the FCE documenation confuses features that are only in FCP.
thanks for the quick response!

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