Import problems iPhone 4 to iPhoto 6

Hey there,
Have a new iPhone and am trying to import photos and video I've taken. At first, iPhoto 6 was happy to import both photos and video, then it decided not to, then yes, then no... All these files have been taken on the iPhone camera, so I don't understand why some import, but some will not. I don't get an error message in iPhoto either - nothing happens, for hours...
I've since tried importing using Image Capture, and that imported one video file successfully to the desktop, but nothing since and it takes ages, even for a photo. Now Image Capture won't even import those - I get an error message.
Ideas? Suggestions? Do I need to shell out for a newer version of iPhoto? Will it make a difference? From what I've read so far none of them seem to play nice with iPhone...
Cheers,
Stredders

OK, so since my last post, I've deleted some photos and video from my iPhone (ones I'd already imported, not the ones I wanted to import), ejected it, closed Image Capture and iTunes. Then I reconnected my iPhone and imported the files to iPhoto via Image Capture.
It worked in a flash, and I didn't lose any data - but that's not a fix, is it?

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