Thanks for your reply David. I have found out through this battle that there are a lot of programs that will import various mxf file structures into the mainstream video editing tools. What I find a little annoying is that camera manufacturers and or companies that supply editing software would have you spend another 100 to 300 dollars for software to get the files into your machine so that you can edit more efficiently.
Granted I’m no programmer so I don’t know how complex / expensive it is to write code and have these files recognizable to the various editing platforms, but I sure would be inclined to use one over the other if I could have one less headache in the edit suite.