Can't import Photos! Exclamation point only...

First off, I've already rebuilt the database.
Suddenly, when i try to import from SD or iPhone, the preview thumbnail is imported and shows up in events, but the MAIN PHOTO IS NOT IMPORTED! ONly the thumbnail is there.
I've looked in the iPhoto folders too and I can see the imported thumbnail but there is no full rez file to accompany it. So when I click on the thumbnail, I get the dreaded exclamation point!
Please, if anyone has any idea of what's going on or how to solve, let me know. I can see there are MANY other users having this problem after reading the boards. I've yet run across the solution though.
Once again, this suddenly started and all imports only bring over a thumbnail and not the full rez photo itself.
This is a shared family library (and has been for years), that resides in the shared folder.

TD,
I'm running a managed library. The library is in the shared folder so it is accessible by each account on the imac. We're using the internal drive of the imac.
No preferences have been changed and I check it just now too.
This problem has just started mysteriously and is only a problem on NEW imports. The image data is not being transferred, only the thumbnail. When I go into the iphoto library manually, I can see the small thumbnail image but there is no full rez image to go with it in the library at all.
I've tried a spotlight search and there is just no full rez info being imported.
Any advice would be appreciated.

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