Firewire Problem

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Hi Guys,
I'm a newbie here, and looking for help.
I have just purchased a Belkin 3 port Firewire card, complete with 4 to 6 pin cable, software (incs Firenet pc and Ulead Video studio 5).
I am running Win XP SP1 on an AMD1800 athlon pc, EPOX EP-8KHAL motherboard, 256mb ram. I also have a panasonic NV-DS99 digital video camera, which I wish to connect via firewire so I can burn my movies.
The problem I have is that the software programs I have tried to use, My sonic Showbiz & movie editor, Video studio 5, Nero 6, are not recognizing the camera plugged into my pc. I have rang Belkin, they say the card is working correctly, even though it didnt fully install as per their instructions. I have also rung Panasonic, but they are of no help either.
What I am wondering is if there is a seperate driver for the firewire card for my camera, as nothing seems to get captured when I play the movie in VCR mode.
In Showbiz, the error message is "Cant connect to device". When I go to choose the camera in its settings panel, there is no device to choose from.
In showbiz movie editor, it says " No valid video capture devices were detected. If you have a video device attached, make sure its a PAL device." (The camera is set to PAL mode!). In Ulead, it came up with an error message while installing, "Could not detect any DV drivers!" or something to that effect!!
I tried to use Nero 6 but couldnt figure out how to capture or even start capturing the video, and I couldnt see the camera in any of its panels to select it from.
I have looked in the Device Manager, but no camera is listed in there, only the (microsoft)1394 net adapter which is disabled as per Belkins instructions, Unibrain/belkin 1394 net adapter (enabled), and near the top of the list, 1394 OHCI bus host controller.
Can anyone shed some light onto this. I have read several of your posts, before joining, but couldnt quite find anything that related to my problem.

Many thanks in advance.
Frank!