Importing for Canon Rebel XT RAW images fails

I have a rather odd problem. Both iPhoto and Aperture choke on RAW images I try to import from my Rebel Canon XT. It worked fine until a week or so ago when it suddenly broke.
It is NOT the camera as iPhoto on my Powerbook can still import those images just fine.
In iPhoto on the Powermac the import feature simply hangs.
In Aperture it does import the files but then spews out an error message telling me that it can't do anything with the "unsupported file format".
The files themselves are fine, when I import them first into iPhoto on the Powerbook, then export the RAW images and import them from the file system it works.
Anybody encountered this? What strikes me as odd is that both Aperture AND iPhoto have this problem, so does Lightroom Beta btw.

Michael:
Did you run any updates shortly before this started happening? What system version are you at?
Do you Twango?

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