Importing photos from Canon Powershot SX10IS

I know there is an issue with Canons Camera Window software and OS X 10.6.2, but I have a strange thing going on. I have an old Canon A530 and when attached to my Mac it opens Camera Window just fine and downloads with no problem. Does anyone know why this works, but when I attach my SX10IS I get the message "Failed to initialize program."

Are you shooting JPEG? If so every camera is supported
are you shooting RAW - if so RAW is unique to each camera and then only these cameras are currently supported - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1475
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