Cannot edit (or even view) some photos...

Recently I got a new Olympus FE-190 6 megapixel camera. (My previous camera was a 4 MP). The first roll that I imported into iPhoto (version 6.0.6) worked fine until I try to edit or view a larger image. The thumbnails appear, but when I click to edit a photo from my new camera, a grey screen appears where a larger photo should be with an exclamation mark surrounded by a dotted-line square. It only does this for the 6 MP photos, which are 2816 x 2112 pixels. Also, these photos are the only ones I cannot put into a slideshow in iDVD. Any suggestions would be of much help.
Thanks,
Geoff

I'm having the same problem, my pictures are not on
my camera anymore so I'm going to have to try the
hard way. I'll keep you posted!
I found this article: iphoto edit gray exclamation
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303473
It has a few different ideas to solve the problem. All I had to do was select the thumbnail, go to photos in menu bar, select revert to original! Problem solved.
imacg4   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

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