Importing from Memory Card (photos taken with Olympus EP1)

Hi there,
I have used a mac pretty much all my life and importing photos from camera/memory cards is like second nature. I have recently started using the Olympus EP1 and transfer my photos using a card reader in my USB drive. Things have been working great until this weekend, iPhoto (my version is 7.1.5) would only import 150 images out of 446 on my memory card. All images on the card were taken on the same day with the same camera. When I tried to manually import the images by copying them to my desktop and then bringing them into iPhoto the exact same thing happened, stating them to be unreadable files. They are raw Olympus format, all of them. Why is it refusing to import the other 300?
When I open the files in the Olympus software that came with the camera, all 446 images are viewable and editable, meaning that the files are not corrupted. I did the most recent iPhoto update but same problem. I've restarted. Please help!

Yeah that is the strange thing. I've double-checked and they are all the same format: _.ORF
Can there be a raw .ORF file and a non-raw .ORF??
I've got all the images loaded into the Olympus Master 2 program (their own image editing software that comes with the camera), and iPhoto open. Master 2 is labeling them all as RAW, but only 150 of those will open in iPhoto. I can't find anywhere that states that those are not RAW, and I didn't change the picture settings on my camera...
So now I'm even more confused with your question as to how iPhoto DID load those 150 photos at all!

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