Help! Importing photos from camera

New Mac user! I tried to import files from my camera's card via a card reader and ran into several problems. Let me first say that all the pictures were shot this week with the same camera and have not been opened or altered by any other program. The issues are these: iPhoto won't import some 200 of the 300 photos at all. The photos that do display are colored incorrectly and have garbled areas or gray. Also, horizontal or vertical lines (roughly four or five per photo) cause a chopping effect that makes things look offset, such as a person's head offset from their body. What in the world is going on. I thought my new Mac was just supposed to work!?
Imac 20 inch Intel 2.16 ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   256mb video ram
Imac 20 inch Intel 2.16 ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   256mb video ram

I asked about details because the symptoms sound more like a hardware problem than software. I track this forum and haven't heard of results similar to yours. I have a Canon S45 that writes bad data on CF cards once in a while -- if I can open the image, there's a stripe at the bottom. Can you still 'see' the images on the camera? Can you zoom into them on the camera? (the preview image is sometimes separate from the full image). Using another technique, including swapping cables, to 'load' the image on the Mac may give some clues. Can you 'preview' the images by opening the card reader's icon on the desktop and searching its folder(s)?

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