Can't import from 3GS into iPhoto

Now when I plug my iPhone in, iPhoto starts up, but no preview of pictures is displayed, and the import button remains grayed out. So I can't import photos.
I have the 3rd party app phoneview. It allowed me to import photos by dragging from it into iPhoto. However phoneview doesn't recognize videos, so they remain stuck on my iPhone.
I did previously upload one bunch of photos that even included some videos, but now it doesn't seem to work. I'm running the latest everything, including Mac OS, iTunes and iPhoto.

There are many video formats. iPhoto can't read all of them; in fact, it can't read most of them. Here's something that can:
VideoLAN - Download official VLC media player for Mac OS X
On the other hand, the videos are just files. You can copy them anywhere you want in the Finder.

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I went back to the backup copy of my iPhoto library (containing all of my albums, groupings, and etc.) and did what I hadn't thought to do in the first place: I simply attempted to import photos (my original difficulty) into this backup iPhoto library. It worked perfectly!!! All photos imported into this backed up copy as if it were the original. And now that I have trashed my "original" and totally defective former iPhoto library, this backup copy is now my new iPhoto library.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Are these troublesome files in the iPhoto Library Folder? Are you putting files in there hoping to see them in iPhoto?
iPhoto is a database, the images have to be imported (File -> Add to Library) before they can be seen. Also, as a precaution against duplication, iPhoto will not import pics from the iPhoto Library Folder, so move them out to the desktop and then import them.
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