File handling in LightR 2.6RC importing from Leica M9

Please help - there is something going on here I don´t understand;
1. I shoot compressed DNG in my Leica - get lovely images!
2. I import to Lightroom 2.6 RC as DNGs via USB cable from the camera/device - usb port set in PTP protocol mode (have not tried "mass storage" yet)..
3. The dng file sizes in Lightroom as viewed in Library is only 8-10 MB (dimension 5212x3468). The file sizes on the SD card is 17,89 MB if I look at the files via a card reader (this is according to spec.). Do Lightroom compress the files?
4. I ask Ligtroom to back up the image files into a separate catalogue. However - here the files are in TIF, size 17,89 MB BUT dimension only 320x216???? Not possible to use.
Can anyone explain??
Thanks
/Anders
BTW - thanks for an excellent form with a lot of help!!

In LR terminology, a "catalog" is a LR database of settings and locations of photos.  It is not a subfolder of My Pictures that contains photos, but I think I know what you were trying to say.
Everything seems normal about what is happening except the files in the backup folder are TIFs instead of DNGs.  If your camera is producing DNGs then the files that get backed up should be DNGs.  Can a Leica produce either DNGs or TIFs?  Some of the higher-end Canon's create their RAWs with a TIF extension, but they are still just RAW-type files.
I think something may be interfering with the import when you do Import from Device directly from the camera.
In an effort to isolate the source of the strange behavior, as others have suggested, if possible, take the card out of the camera, put it in a card-reader and use Import from Device on that. 
Also look at the folder of files on the card when it's in the card-reader and see if those files are TIFs or DNGs.
You might just rename one of the TIFs in the backup folder to .DNG and see if things can open it normally.  Maybe Win7 or some other application is doing something to the files because they are under My Pictures and it is a watched folder?  You might try moving the backup folder somewhere else out from under My Pictures.
Did this behavior occur with LR 2.5 and earlier, or is this the first version of LR that you've tried with the camera?
What happens when you use the released version of LR 2.6 not the release candidate, or is that was you are using, despite the subject of the thread?

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