IPad Photo Transfer Very Slow....???

I'm using my IPad as a spare hard drive / memory chip to store all my vacation videos and photos then transfer them all to my PC in one go when I get home - the only (well, the main) problem is that the transfer rate is extremely slow.  Is this normal ?
I'm using a macbook pro with USB2 and a fat iPad cable, and transferring in Win7.  (Tried image capture in osx, it said "there was a problem" and simply stopped the import part-way through)
My other problem is that all the photos & videos are stored on the ipad in many different directories.  If I search for *.jpg or *.mp4 to group-copy all the files, it won't let me copy them.....I have to copy the contents of each directory individually....
There must be a more straightforward / quicker way than this ?

I am not sure where movies shot with camera or video camera go. I am assuming they would all go into the Photos app on the iPad.
Have you tried just syncing your iPad the normal way in OS X?
Normally, if you have photos in the Photos app on iPad, iPhoto in OS X is supposed to open and it will ask you to import the photos to iPhoto from the iPad. I believe the same is true of the video. If video is stored in the Photos App on the iPad, it should sync and copy to the iPhoto app on Mac OS X.
Once imported, you can always access the original by going to your iPhoto library and either copy the data to a new location for editing (if using different photo editor) or for video, copy those to a new location for video editing, say, in iMovie, or some other video editor.
And I agree with the previous poster, leave the images stored on the cards that it writes to so you will always have an additional backup source of photos or videos in case something goes awry when you try to use your iPad.
The iPad is not really meant to be a portable, mass storage HD just to store tons of content for dumping to a computer later.
It's more a light applications/multimedia, ereading type of device. There are new portable HD's and WiFi portable HDs that you can have connected to an iPad for mass storage use.
Look at ones by Hyper Drive, Seagate or Western Digital.
Anyhoo... Try a normal iPad sync to see if it transfers normally instead of using Image Capture.
See if this works.
And yes, the transfer rate maybe slow, especially if you shot a lot of video and depending on the resolution you shot your photos in.
Good Luck!

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