Won't regcognise Camcorder

I placed a post regarding this sometimes ago regarding a situation where my iBook and G5 won't recognise my camcorder, it says there is nothing connected,see below of a previous thread that I started sometime ago
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1491386#1491386
I have tried all of those possible solutions to the problem the reason for resurrecting this post is because I took my camcorder to my friends G5 and it worked perfectly ok.
Is anyone aware of anymore checks that I can do to my system to try and make both my iBook and G5 recognise my camcorder?
Advice would be much appreciated!!!
M

Have you tried resetting the firewire ports on the macs?
Also, maybe one of these?
Final Cut Express HD: Turning off or disconnecting a FireWire device while rendering a project may cause unexpected results
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300709
FireWire video out does not work after installing Motion
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93926
(If you hadn't noticed, my nickname is "The Librarian" around here...lots of Apple Articles filed away)
:)Sue

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