7.0.1 Hangs When Previewing Photos to Import

Yesterday, my wife took about 1.1 GB of pictures with our D40x on a 4GB Extreme III SD card. These photos (about 250) were added to the ~150 already on the card.
I have previously had no issues importing pictures from the card using a USB SD card reader (SanDisk MicroMate), but yesterday, when I plugged in the reader with the card, in the Import Preview screen (or whatever it's called where you can select which pictures to import), I get the spinning beach ball of death as iPhoto is trying to load the previews. The little light on the USB reader stays on as it would when it functions normally. An AppleOptionEsc combo shows that iPhoto is not responding. Killing the program helps as does pulling out the card reader in getting iPhoto to either quit or give me an error in iPhoto and running normally, respectively.
I've not tried d/ling them directly from the camera as of yet but I have achieved two successful workarounds. First is to use my wife's MacBook Pro with the same processor and RAM that I have (2 GHz Core Duo + 1GB RAM). While it's slow to select and import, I get results with her computer. Or, I just mount the flash card, copy the images to my Desktop and then import to iPhoto.
Both of these work-arounds are not very satisfying to me and I'm wondering if it's an issue of my hardware choking on the loading of previews for ~1.75 GB of Photos or an iPhoto software or hardware compatibility issue.
Anybody else having this issue?
Suggestions? Tonight I plan to try importing directly from the camera as well as trying this on my Mac Mini with a slower 1.66 GHz Core Duo. I'll post results if I discover anything interesting.
Thanks in advance.

Yeah - this sounds familiar.
Just got back from a holiday with 611 photos. Plugged in my Canon Ixus 800 IS (also known as PowerShot SD700 IS Digital ELPH in some territories) with the photos on a SanDisk Extreme III 2 GB card - iPhoto launches, then hangs. I tried launching iPhoto first, then switching on the camera and it goes to the Importing screen and hangs again after the 'card busy' light on the camera flashes a few times before stopping.
I worked around it by importing to a folder using Image Capture (which saw and imported the photos without any problems) and then importing from the folder to iPhoto but even this was problematic taking 10-20 seconds (!!!) to import each 3ish MB photo.
Not good.

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