Image Capture Broken?

(I originally posted this in the Mountain Lion forum, but am now resposting here at the behest of a fellow commenter):
About 90% of the time when I plug in my iPhone or iPad, they are not detected by Image Capture (or iPhoto). The other 10% of the time it is recognized correctly. Also note that my iPhone and iPad are always correctly recognized by iTunes 100% of the time, so there is no problem with my cable or my Macbook Pro itself detecting the iPhone/iPad; the problem is specific to Image Capture and iPhoto.
This bug was present in Snow Leopard and apparently still hasn't been fixed in Mountain Lion.
Any workarounds? How do I get my iPhone and iPad to show up in Image Capture?
Thank you.

I've not seen this issue on either 10.6, 10.7 or now 10.8.
Some thoughts:
Create a new account (systempreferences -> accounts or Users & Groups on 10.7 and 10.8), make a new Library in that account. Does it work there?
In your main account: Try boot into Safe Mode and see.
Any messages in the Console?

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Process:         Image Capture [2788]
Path:            /Applications/Image Capture-Intel.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture
Identifier:      com.apple.ImageCaptureApp
Version:         ??? (???)
Build Info:      ImageCapture-4000102~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [80]
Interval Since Last Report:          34739 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           3
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   3
Date/Time:       2012-10-02 16:28:30.018 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 258F476A-32E1-411D-BA4E-A36E9BB42632
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
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Library not loaded: /System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Application/ICCommonUI.framework/Versions/A/ICCommonUI
Referenced from: /Applications/Image Capture-Intel.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10368631&#10368631
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Hi and thanks again
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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi / Kiss Digital x2 / EOS 450D"
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1: user:alice allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,re adextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit
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