Won't capture

HELP!!!!
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,3
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.7 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.35 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.4f1
Maxtor SATA Ultra16 500GB 720RPM 16MB CACHE Serial ATA/300 internal Hard Drive Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Fire Wire from Sony DSR-25
Yesterday I was batch capturing for the first time in about a year and after capturing realized that I hadn't set my capture settings to the right location. I moved the captured files to the location that I wanted and reset my System Settings properly. After I did this I tried to recapture one of the clips that failed to capture the first time. A blank grey screen covered The Log and Capture Screen and I got an I/O error message. I tried other clips from different tapes and got the same result.
These symptoms appear in all projects:
Viewer and Canvas screens are green.
Random multi-colored blocks on video in Viewer.
No video will come into the timeline and audio is corrupt.
Grey screen overlays Log and Capture Screen when trying to capture, spinning ball stays on forever
and then I have to force quit FCP
Things I've tried:
Turned off computer, disconnected all peripherals, waited about 30 minutes
Trashed Prefs.
Reinstalled FCP
Tried playing captured files on QT player and it works fine. The original capture files are not corrupted.
Repaired Permissions on my Mac HD.
Tried to Repair Disk on my Maxtor but got "Repairing disk failed with error Could not unmount disk."
Could the problem be that my FCP application is on my Mac HD and all of my project files
including capture files are on my Maxtor HD?
I've had it this way for about a year and everything has worked all-right until now.
I tried copying FCP to the Maxtor but got "The alias "AEProfiling" cannot be copied to the destination,
perhaps because the destination does not support this type of alias."
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Michael Hamilton
PowerMac7,3 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Power Mac G5 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.1) Number of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 2.7 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 8 GB Bus Speed: 1.35 GHz

Go up to FCP 5.0.4 via software upgrade... but it may not help. As a side note, I'd also crossgrade to the universal version... it's a whole software cycle upgrade from where you are now, and it's a bargain. The deal is over after Dec 20 too so you need to do this right away... It's better software all round... bug fixes, and even some new features.
Canon cameras' TC recording is suspect if you ask me, and you may well have to dub the tape via firewire to the Sony deck from another DV camera or deck to laydown a decent TC track. If so, regenerate the timecode on the deck, don't slave it. Also I'd record DVCAM instead of the consumer tape format you've got from that camera. Better TC, and Better audio sync lock.
You might be able to get past this if you can live with bogus timecode on the clips.... use "non controllable device" as the device control, and then just use capture now after you start rolling the tape manually from the DSR. BUT it will not record the correct timecode, with all of those ramifications... i.e. no recapture getting the same timecode etc...
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