Card Reader won't Show Up!!!

HELP!?! All of a sudden my SanDisk Imagemate won't show up on my desktop when I insert my compact flash card. Usually it pops up on my desktop and iPhoto also opens but today.... nothing. I've even tried restarting because that usually solves the problem. Any ideas or suggestions? I haven't done anything new or different.
It worked fine last week, I downloaded over 400 pics.
(It does show up as connected when I check "about this computer")
17 iMac FP 1.25GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) iPhoto 5.04

I wish I could help you but I'm having the same problem myself.
See my post on Dec. 30: Compact flash disk won't work after upgrade to 5.0.4
I can't see any of the files on two of my compact flash disks. I did plug the disks into an underpowered USB hub and thought that might be the problem. Did you do anything like that? Check out: http://resale.headgap.com/bobsmactips.html.
I have a Canon EOS 20D. I found out on the Canon web site that there is a firmware update that addresses communication problmes with compact flash cards. However, they want me to copy the update to the disk and then onto the camera. But, until I see the disk in my Mac, I can't copy the firmware update.
Any clues would be a big help.

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Hey Everyone,
Using a high capacity card in a standard card reader slot will cause this issue. Im going to guess that the cards you ar having issues with are the SDHC cards and not the standard SD cards. As Naoto stated, by using a camera as a card reader you an workaround this. You can also look into SDHC card reader adapters. Here is a good article on the SDHC cards: http://goo.gl/lj5Fq
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