Okay, my bad. I spoke with him again and found that he never actually tried to copy the files directly to the hard disk. He always used FCP to import and got the errors. I updated him to 5.0.4 to fix that issue. Thanks again for the thoughts!!
I assume he did since we could mount the card and see the contents and pull the media using FCP Import. It seemed to be just the copy in the finder that didn’t work. I thought without the driver the P2 card wouldn’t even mount.