HELP!!! Raw files are corrupt in lightroom 3

So I am new to lightroom 3 and have been im
porting jpegs for the past 6 weeks. Just changed to raw images.
Imported 100 images they were all fine until I got into the development mode and then 33 of the 100 were corrupt
. So I tried a different card, same problem.
So I just bought a new card and installed lightroom 3.2 and tried 100 images again
THIS TIME IS WAS WORSE!!!!
This time even in development it was fine, and the histogram even showed perfect and then about 3 seconds later the histogram gets wiped and the image goes corrupt????
Any ideas?

I'm having the same problems though it is just a few per shoot. I also don't think it is a hardware issue (though I've sure sometimes it could be). I've had it happen using different CF cards. And the file doesn't seem to be corrupt on transfering to my hard drive. I'm using a Canon 40D. Using Lightroom 3.2 64bit. I shoot in RAW. Here is my work flow.
I import the photos to my external hard drive via the camera.
I then back up the originals before importing into Lightroom by burning them to back up discs.
I then import them into Lightroom from their location.
Upon initial look everything is fine but when you actually select an image and the preview is fully rendered you can see the corrupt image. Usually a white rectangle in the bottom right side the image. Sometimes you get the yellow and pink streaking in that same area as well.
In trying to open the original file from my hard drive using just my basic Canon Digital Photo Proffesional after it was imported into LR it also states that the image is corrupted.
Now if I get out my back up disc and copy that image to my desktop and open it in Canon Digital Photo Proffesional it opens it without problem. There is no corruption. So the file that I backed up from my hardrive shows no corruption. I think the original file is fine.
I then copied the image from my desktop to the original folder on my external hardrive overwriting it. The image in lightroom is now fine. There is no corruption.
Process of elimination leads me to believe that the corruption happens on importing into Lightroom. It isn't my cards (different cards same problem). It isn't my external hardrive as the file copied from that drive is fine. It seems random especially being that I can overwrite the file with the same file and then it is fine.
I really hope this problem is sovled quickly. This to me is a BIG deal.

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