Compact Flash Drive Destroyed.... by Lion apparently

I have been importing RAW photos from my 8 GB compact flash card into iPhoto for 3 years. The other day, I went to import and I got an error from OS X that said:
OS X can't repair the disk "DISKNAME"
Then the error:
The disk was not ejected properly....
At that point the drive disappeared from the desktop and re-appeared and it happened all over again. I took the card to a camera store and they couldn't open it on a PC, it said "please format" or something like that. I bought another card and took 400 irreplacable photos on the new card. I plugged it into my Mac and it happened again on the new card.
By this time I am freaking out because I can't lose these photos too. (All photos on the other card are completely gone!!!!!!) I immediately took the card to a friend's PC and got all the photos off the card and on a DVD-R. Thank goodness I didn't lose them! Then I had to leave with my TAIL BETWEEN MY LEGS!
I plugged this NEW card into another Mac and it worked fine. I was expecting the same error because of the reader or the wire that connects it. Nope! Everything worked fine.
That is when I remembered that I had just upgraded to OS X 10.7.5. My other mac that worked is running 10.6.8.
This leads me to believe that 10.7.5 destroyed my card! And more importantly destroyed 300 irreplacable photos!
To confirm, I upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I plugged the NEW card in an it worked fine.
So did Lion 10.7.5 killed my compact flash card and robbed me of 300 photos? I truly believe so.

I just did a security update and when I plugged in my CF Card it started doing it again! Same error.
What the *&#$*&^ is going on?
The only way I can safely import photos is to plug the CF Card into my laptop running Snow Leopard and import across WIFI. It took long enough to import via USB, now I have to go through WIFI?
Is this how it works on Windows?

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