Blue color when photos brought in catalog

I am using PSE 6 - shot a series of daylight photos in Raw. (Have a Canon G9 - Lexar Prof. SDHC card). The colors look fine in the camera and also when displayed in the Photo Downloader. However, when they were brought into the catalog about 10 of 45 came out extremely blue. They are showing up at a temperature of 2850 while the correct ones (often a virtually identical shot) are 7500. None of the camera settings were changed - all were shot in P mode and raw. I deleted them from the catalog/hard drive and downloaded again - same thing. Does anyone know what might have caused this? I just took another 8 photos (again outside in daylight) and they are OK. Am heading overseas soon and I am concerned that something may be wrong with the camera. Thanks for any suggestions.

The only thing I'm missing here is why the color temperature measurements are "backwards".
Light with a color temperature of 2850 Deg K is much, much "warmer", (read way redder), than light with a color temperature of 7500 Deg K, which is quite blue. Noon daylight is considered to be 5500 Deg K. A clear blue northern sky has a color temp of in excess of 10,000 Deg Kelvin.
The old tungsten photoflood bulbs had a color temp of 3200 deg K, and if they were used with daylight balanced film, the results would be extremely RED.
The reverse is true with using tungsten balanced film in daylight, pictures would come out almost totally blue.
The film's color balance was a constant, not so with the auto white balance of a modern digital camera. or (?)
So, if the white balance of the >>camera<< was 2850 Deg K when the photos were taken in daylight, then that would explain the blue color...! Or that;s at least one plausible explanation.

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