ILife 08 Photo Import hangs.

My troubles began several months ago when I upgraded from a Canon Elp 2.0 MP camera to the Canon G7 10 MP. First I noticed that since the G7 now used a 2GB SD card rather than a CF card, I cold not longer use the Firewire card reader that I had enjoyed. No matter, I plugged the G7 directly in the USB 2.0 port and attempted to download about 250 photos. After about 50 photos, the whole process hung and came to an abrupt halt. the 50th photo only imported about halfway down the image and then the whole process hung. The work around was to abandon the import, save the photos that had been imported so far and then continue in batches of 50. Not exactly life threatening, but annoying to say the least.
iLife 08 had been announced so I thought that perhaps it might solved the problem. In the meantime, I purchased a Lexar Media USB 2.0 multi card reader at the suggestion of "Old Toad" on this forum thinking that might solve the issue. I wish I could say that my troubles were over but I can't. When I plugged the SD card into the Multi-reader, the G5 will not even recognize it. Just for fun, I tried plugging in an old CF card and it showed up right away.
To make matters worse still, I received iLife 08 hoping that one or all of these issues might be resolved. No such luck. I downloaded about 42 photos directly from the digital camera (Canon G7) using iLife 08 and the thumbnails all showed up on the screen just as promised. However, my problem started when I hit the Import button. After importing 18 of the photos, the 19th photo only came in halfway and the import process hung after that. I re-tried the procedure repeatedly with no success.
So now I don't quite know what to do or which piece of equipment to throw away. BTW - my Dell laptop seems to be able to read the SD card rather nicely so I'm tempted to use the PowerMac G5 as a door stop at this moment.
This is becoming a very frustrating experience. Between ILife 08, The Lexar Reader and the CF-SD converter, I have about $200 invested and I'm no further ahead. do you think perhaps that the Dane-elec 2 GB SD card just isn't recognizable by the G5? I find this an absurd notion since even my Dell Laptop can see it.
Any thoughts and or suggestions would be most welcome.
John

Greetings,
If you open iPhoto without the camera plugged in does it load all your pictures and can you double-click on a few and they show up full size just fine?
If so this may be an issue with the camera / bad data on the camera.
Before we go down that road, so basic fixes:
Ensure all your software is up to date (Apple Menu > Software Update).
Remove the following to the trash and restart the computer and try again:
Home > Library > Caches (I remove the whole folder. It will be re-generated upon restart.)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iPhoto (There may be more than one. Remove them all.)
If the same issue occurs try importing the pictures off the camera using Image Capture found in your Applications folder: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ImageCapture/6.0/en/5304.html
__Assuming this imports fine and the images are working for you, you probably want to reformat / erase the camera's media card using the reformat or erase option built into the camera.
If the images do not show up fine when double-clicked and iPhoto still has issues when the camera is not plugged in try rebuilding your iPhoto Library following this article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638. Use the bottom 3 rebuild options.
Hope that helps.

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