IMac on Snow Leopard crashes after uploading photos from camera

I helped my father's boss transfer over files from his old iMac to his new iMac using Migration Assistant over ethernet cable last week. All was well and running fine when I left (I also ran Software Update, and rebooted to make sure everything was REALLY ok).
Tonight his wife uploaded some photos directly from her camera into iPhoto, the machine completely froze up, she cold booted it, and when it came back up again, the desktop photo had changed, all the dock icons were different, and the photos she had uploaded were gone. Has anyone had this happen to them? I have a REALLY hard time believing the computer did anything on its own. My guesses right now (it's late here, I'm heading over in the morning) are:
--she logged into a wrong user account on reboot (though there should only be one on there)
--something got corrupted during the migration that I didn't notice the first time around
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! (I'm not sure if it's 10.6.1 or 2, but it's BRAND new and therefore definitely on 10.6)

HI
Tonight his wife uploaded some photos directly from her camera into iPhoto, the machine completely froze up,
Check the camera manufacture's site to make sure it's Mac 10.6 compatible and if it is, download and install Mac OS X compatible drivers.
Then repair disk permisisons.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
she logged into a wrong user account on reboot (though there should only be one on there)
Doubt this. If the camera isn't compatible or is missing the software this would have happened on any user account.
something got corrupted during the migration that I didn't notice the first time around
If the old iMac is a PowePC (not Intel), it's possible files that were migrated would need Rosetta installed. Rosetta enables applications compiled for the PowerPC family of processors to run on Apple systems that use Intel processors.
Rosetta can be installed from the new iMac install disc. "optional installs.pkg"
Read here also.
Intel-based Mac: Some migrated applications may need to be updated
Carolyn

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Tonight his wife uploaded some photos directly from her camera into iPhoto, the machine completely froze up,
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