Computer sudden'y won't "see" digital camera.

Here's what happened:
I uploaded a whole bunch of photos that had been on my camera for about a month. Immediately took two more pictures, but when I attempted to upload - was told that they were ".jpg" and couldn't be uploaded. Now iPhoto doesn't know the camera is connected, and Canon says that they don't support OS x.4 for the Canon Powershot A75.
I've rebooted, shut down etc. System Profiler doesn't see the connected camera. I use a hub - it's always worked before, but I did try to connect it directly.
Canon's website says they don't support Tiger. But that's not the issue, something weird happened here. I'm going to use only the PB (I have many peripherals) fix disk permissions and trash the preferences file next.
Other ideas welcome.
Thanks
PB G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   iPhoto 4.0.3
PB G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Update: Some folks in this forum suggested getting a card reader to others is a similar predicament. So I bought one. Voila, the problem is solved. The reader cost about $20. I plugged it into my hub, put the card in and iPHoto immediately wanted to know if I planned to import the pictures.
I highly recommend this solution.
PB G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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