Trouble with Offline Footage

Hello, I am trying to get back into video editing and I am running into some frustrating road blocks with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. I am using a, what I am discovering to be cheap camera, Samsung SMX-F40. Im shooting "TV Fine" resolution, which I believe is 720x480. Through trial and error, I believe I have a correct Sequence Preset when creating my project, because I have successfully edited and uploaded the video to YouTube which was my goal for that project. But it had problems the whole time with video going offline so I had to re-edit a lot. Going back to the final project file only days laters, it is once again unusable because a few clips are offline again. I try re-linking them but files are "Unsupported format or damaged file". These are the same files with same name in same location I used to create the video and it suddenly doesnt like them now.
The files are .mp4, which I read that premeire seems to have issues with. I used Bigasoft Total Video converter to change my .mp4 into .mp4 that I read premier would like better. But I am still having same issues. It just doesnt like either one.
I am a little lost and was wondering if anyone has any advice or solutions that might solve my problem.

I have a similar problem. Except it doesnt effect all of the files all of the time.
Im using CS4 on an HP EliteBook 2540p w/ an Intel i7 2.13ghz and 4 gb ram. Windows 7 32 bit.
I have some file that work just fine. But the main files I need for the video keep saying "offline" And when I try to link them they are "unsupported or dammaged." All the files are 720p .mp4 files from the same camera. And all the files werew transfered at the same time. They are from a Flip if that makes any difference. The weird thing is that sometimes one file will work and other times not.
Any clues? Im going to try the above mentioned "fix" as soon as we get a new IT guy. But not sure when that will be.

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