IPhoto '09: No longer recognizing RW2?

I have had a Panasonic Lumix GF1 for over a year now and my iPhoto has always been able to import the RAW files (.RW2) without issue. This past month, whenever I try to import photos, I've received the infamous "Unreadable Files. The following files could not be imported. (The file is in an unrecognized format.)" I've tried the following to no avail:
- Creating a new library and trying to import the new photos there
- Downloading the Photo Library Manager, rebuilding part of the library and trying to import the new photos there
- Importing the photos to my backup library on a portable HD
- Clearing space on my hard drive - free space went from 12 GB --> 40 GB
- Saving the photos from my camera to my desktop, then trying to import the photos
iPhoto has been able to import the photos once I change them to jpegs, but part of the reason I use iPhoto is so that I can view all the photos before I choose which ones I want to edit to jpegs.
Is there something I haven't tried? I thought about upgrading to iPhoto '11 but I'm a little weary of the comments that say that it's sluggish.

Your camera's raw has been supported by Mac OS X Lion since the earliest versions. In the Aperture board we noticed, that with MacOS X 10.7.4 it was necessary to register the raw support for your camera with the launch services database - hopefully this will also fix the problem for iPhoto.
See this post by Alan Roseman:
This solved my questionRe: Aperture 3 preview of raw file greenish,
but read the follow up posts (the lsregister command) as well, on how it is supposed to work and how to correct the typos   (there are blanks in the commands that need to be removed)
Please post back, if this works for iPhoto. I cannot test it, I have a different Lumix.
Regards
Léonie
P.S. I have not noticed any sluggishness in iPhoto '11, and can really recommend it, but I have a very fast MBP i7.

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