Vixia HF10 no longer recognized by iMac

I've had my Canon HF10 for about a year now and I used to be able to connect it via usb and iMovie would automatically open and I could import my HD movies. I haven't touched the HF10 since at least Thanksgiving '08 and decided to load the movies into iMovie and was surprised to find that it wasn't even showing up as being connected. I've been trying for a couple of days now and have gotten the HF10 to mount a few times but I just got the beachball of death on iMovie. I also have Toast 10 and it's not recognized by it either. The only difference I can think of is that I now am using iMovie '09 instead of '08 but from other posts it doesn't look like that's the problem. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David

If you suspect corrupted software then the answer would be to re-install.
However, try this first.
Update your software Apple > Software Update.
Open Applications > Utilities > Disc Utility.
In disc utility, click on your mac HD in the left pane then in the main pane, click 'Repair File Permissions'.
That takes a few minutes, then shut down and re-boot your mac.
See if that fixes your problem otherwise a re-install of iMovie via the iLife disc or you software install disc.
Make sure that if you install, do a software update after.
Regards,
Z

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