Unable to Intialize HDV deck - can anyone pls help me with this FCE Issue?

I have recently moved from a MacBook Pro (circa 2 yrs old) to a new MacBook Pro with the NEW firewire 800 port. I have bought a new firewire cable and my camera does not want to be capture from my Sony A1E.
I have a MacBook Pro 2.8ghz running on OS X 10.6.2 and have all the updates installed for FCE.
Every time i try to capture the message comes up "Unable to Intialize HDV deck. Please make sure a deck is connected and try again".
The System is set up to receive the correct frame rate footage and type of footage (which is: HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i50. Formats: All formats). I am running on PAL, so 25fps.
Is there any advice / direction that you could give me at all as I am struggling!
Any help support would be appreciated!
Thanks, Martin

Hi,
Would you confirm that you are using a 9-pin to 4-pin FW cable to connect to your camcorder and that your camcorder is the only FW device connected to your Mac.
When you start up FCE with the camera connected to your Mac and already powered on in VTR mode, does FCE 'see' the camera, or do you get a warning message that FCE is "Unable to locate the following external devices ..." ?

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