Trouble importing from Sony HDR-CX160

Yesterday bought a new camera. Used instructions found on-line to import movies from the camera directly to I-Movie. Yesterday worked like a charm, today I receive an "error" message that I do not understand.
I am using two different versions of IMovie, 09, 8.0.6 on my Imac and Imovie '11 9.0.4 on my Mac Air. Of course my problem is no videos imported.
The sequence that I am using is to open Imovie, connect USP, start camera, select USB connect on camera.
When I do this Iphoto opens which I understand to be part of the transfer process. Device shows up, but there are no photos or movies to import. The screen above is on my IMAC with '09. The following shot is on my MacBook Air with '11.
Anyone have a clue? I will return the camera, but I don't think this is a camera issue.

On your camera, when you download the files in your STREAM folder they are called MTS files.
When you connect via the USB wire (it will give you that option in the camera's view window), click on "Connect USB" then on your Mac desktop it will show a harddrive called "NO NAME"
You click on that and go to
AVCHD>BDMV>STREAM> then any file which ends with .MTS you click and drag into your computer's hard drive or where you are storing the editable movie files.
You must then convert these into .dv (or an FCE friendly movie file format) by using this:
http://www.iskysoft.com/user-guide/video-converter-mac.html
It takes the MTS file and converts them easily.
Otherwise the Mac won't read the MTS files.
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