Importing jpgs instead of RAW...

I've just imported my 3rd CF card into lightroom 4. The first one had no problems but with the 2nd and third I have noticed that about 200+ photos in it starts importing the occassional jpg instead of the .CR2 file? By the end of the import it seems to be every second or thirtd file but random not consistent. I have been shooting in both RAW and JPG lately which was never a problem in LR3 - it would only ever import the RAW files in to LR - it would import the JPGs but just to the hard disk. I only noticed when editing and realising that I wasn't getting all the WB options on some of the files...
Anyone alse having this issue? any suggesitons?
Thanks

Thanks for the reply Lee
I hadn't changed the import setting at all from the default (always worked
ok in LR3). The strange thing is that it has imported all the pics in
sequence 321,322 but only some of them are JPEGs - completely random. I
checked the drive where they were imported and it has imported about 2/3
RAW and 1/3 JPEG so I checked the card to make sure something weird hadn't
happened to it and sure enough the card contains all the RAW and JPG files.
I had already started editing about a third of the files before I realised
so I did a new import using LR3 and then deleted the import from LR4 and
then did the 'find file' thingy in LR4 which still found the JPGs.. so I
moved the JPGs to another folder and did the 'find file' thingy again and
this time had to select the matching RAW file... quite time consuming but
it worked!
Just wondering if this is a bug? It didn't happen with the previous import
with all settings the same.
Thanks again

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