Import Preview Blank

Just started with importing from Rebel XTi into LR, RAW previews are blank and JGP upside down. Show Preview is selected.
Images actually import okay in LR.
Using Card Reader works fine.
I reformatted the cards, upgraded my Rebel firmware to v1.1.1, and upgraded LR to 1.3.1 on one window machine and tried a couple USB cables (both cables work fine with card reader) with no luck. No new software on either machine. I do not use color profiles. I do not calibrate my monitor on these machines.
Works fine on Mac OS 10.4!
Any idea on how to fix?

>Using Card Reader works fine.
Use the card reader then.
I would never connect my camera via usb to my PC; I cannot even find my cable now, just threw it away or out of sight a long time ago.
I have always used just card reader for my D200. I never connect my camera directly to my pc; it it so much easier to have a card reader connected and just plug in the card from the camera.
You will never end up with issues of incompatibility between camera and pc then. And card readers are way faster than camera-to-pc connection. Additionally, you do not run down your camera battery just to transfer pictures.
And of course the card reader will work with cards from multiple sources and multiple formats: phone, camera etc etc.

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I am using a Nikon D100 and since few Weeks a D300 too and I do not have such trouble with the previews as you describe. Well, I do ever take a look to each image at full screen size and zoom it in to 100 % of size before I delete a photo. Thats can not be done in the simple preview window at import.
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