Unable microphone audio input into iMovie HD

Well, I can import audio from an external Mike (iMic) that records to iMovie, plays in imovie playback, can drag to desktop and play in Quicktime, can record into GarageBand - BUT WILL NOT PLAYBACK THROUGH THE DV RECORDER OR RECORD...%$#$#@$ There is just no audio there. Importing CD audio from iTunes works fine. Recording into GarageBand works fine, but when I transfer that file to iTunes and then import to iMovie same thing ... no audio ...
I've wasted all afternoon trying to figure out why not. Any suggestions?? I have to have audio dub for the project I'm working on...
Also, I have the same audio "click" glitch with transitions that I'm seeing in the discussions ... and I haven't figured that one out either.

Spent an hour on the phone w. a "product specialist" at Apple who decided the problem must be w. my DV deck (SONY DHR-1000 .... not sure how he concludes that the deck can simply not receive the microphone audio when everything else comes through OK ... this never happened w. iMovie 4 ... only since switching to iMovie 5.
Also, see new entry ref. glitches and "pops" in audio w. transitions in iMovie 5 ... still trying to solve that mystery and the product specialist blames it on my video since we can put transitions between iPhoto stills and iTune music without the glitches.

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