Importing photos in iPhoto '06 freezes

When I import photos into iPhoto '06 (with all latest patches), it simply hangs up/freezes/locks up (take your pick) somewhere along the line (never same pic, never same amount of pics in library, etc.)
I've tried to reduce this to the simplest setup. Photos are either JPG or CR2 (Canon RAW). I've copied photo folders over to my desktop, so I'm not importing from camera or CF reader, etc.
I've also moved the "iPhoto Library" from my home directory to the desktop, in order to get it rebuilt (with all new prefs, etc.) to avoid the problem.
However, it always freezes somewhere along the way (there is only a total of about 550 files, roughly 3.5GB of files). Never the same pic, never the same quantity of pics in the library. It usually freezes somewhere around having 175-225 total imported.
To Import, I open up iPhoto, then drag the folder (or individual pic files) over to iPhoto and perform the input. It will chug along quite nicely for a time, but eventually it just freezes on a particular photo, and will consume 180%-195% of CPU time, and can run for hours that way, never finishing. Attempting to cancel the import brings up the dialog of "Cancel/Keep/Delete", but any selection there sends iPhoto back into la-la land.
I use Activity Monitor to force quit iPhoto. Whether I reboot or not, bringing up iPhoto will always bring up a dialog box that a certain number of photos were not imported, and to either finish import or not. Continuing, or attempting to recover the import results in an immediate freeze (never finishes ANY pictures).
On each hang, I move the library out of the way (~/iPhoto Library), and simply rebuild it (I have nothing in it right now anyway0>

I am using:
OSX 10.4.9
iPhoto is 6.0.6 (322)
QuickTime is 7.1.5
Started with a cold boot.
I moved ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library to the Desktop
Also moved ~/library/preferences/com.apple.iphoto.plist
Then loaded up iPhoto. Used File\Import to Library and imported one of the folders from the desktop that contained 109 photos. All of the photos in that folder are JPG. All imported fine, thumbnails, etc. Let's call it "FolderA".
Then ran File\Import to Library again on another folder on my desktop that contained 63 photos, ALL are CR2 RAW format. Let's call it "FolderB".
Waited 5 minutes while the "Importing Photos" whirlygig spun around, never imported one picture. (Yesterday, I successfully imported this entire folder 2 times by dragging and dropping - it was first folder imported). Hit Stop Import, took Delete Photos option. Never quit - had to load up Activity Monitor again and force quit iPhoto. iPhoto was showing between 175-195% utilization.
Moved iPhoto Library folder and .plist again to desktop. Rebooted. Ran iPhoto again, this time, started by using File\Import on "FolderB". Immediate iPhoto freeze-up again. Waited 3 minutes. Killed again.
Moved iPhoto Library folder and .plist again to desktop. Rebooted. Ran iPhoto again, this time, started by dragging and dropping "FolderB". Immediate iPhoto freeze-up again. Waited 3 minutes. Killed again.
Now, after moving both the preferences and the iPhoto Library folder, I can't seem to import ANY CR2 photos.
These same CR2 photos can be displayed just fine in "Preview" (double click filename). Adobe Bridge works fine, so does the CS3 beta on these files on the same machine.
Also - just curious why this is in an iPhoto '05 forum. I didn't specify a forum to place this in, I just posted to the generic iPhoto forum.

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