Despite Pana's glossy brochure -- the recordings I have are pure 24.0 video.

I noted this with FCP, but now I've had a chance to use Vegas to directly edit the AVCHD clips.

The use of 24.0 precludes the use of pulldown.

Likewise, the 720p clips are 59.94.

Vegas edits both natively.

Great to know... but it would be better to watch and download these famous 24P 1080 files... this sholdn't be a problem for an expert like you ! Rapidshare, vimeo, etc...

Yes please. Rapidshare is a very good option. You said you couldn't upload AVCHD clips to one of those sites like Vimeo, but rapidshare (or something similar) accepts almost anything.