I can't make the Dynapel Steadyhand de-shaker program work with either m2t or Cineform HDV video. Is there any way to do this? Is there another de-shaker program that works better with HDV, especially the Cineform codec stuff?

That software may not be upgraded for HD resolutions as it states the input formats can be : "every AVI-File, also DV-compressed (DV Type 1 & 2)". The CineForm codec is designed to be very system friendly (i.e. "every AVI-File" mean it should work.) Hopefully other users can recommend a better tool.

nope it doesnt work.. i jsut tried it...
i get a application crash with the cfhd.dll

Have you tried the SteadyShot that comes with Premiere? It works OK for me. I also have used other Dynapel aplication (MotionPerfect) and it works fine with the CF AVI files. I have not used your software, but in MotionPerfect it has a lot of options to change parameters, such as codecs, quality level, etc. Maybe yours has those under "properties"...