IPhoto - Error while importing Photos from Camera!

Hi,
Can any one help me with my issue, I am using a canon EOS40D, and sandisk Extreem2 Compact Flash Disk. Whenever I try to download images from my camera, it shows the images available on the camera in a thumb nail format in mac, but while downloading it says "one or more of the images could not be downloaded" and it lists all the images in the exceptions list. I tried the same operations with another camera too there also i had the same issue. If I copy a set of images from some other source to my Air laptop folder and from there if i try to import those images into this iPhoto it works properly! I tried reinstalling iPhoto many times without any luck. Somewhere I read that if i format my CF disk i should be able to download pics directly from my camera, but even that didnt work. I tried creating different image libraries iPhoto too, even then i had the same issue.
I also noticed that, many of my old pics that i had in this iPhoto, though it shows the thumbnail properly, when i click them to view in the full size it shows a warning exclamation symbol and not the pic! I am really tired of our iPhoto stuff.
The version of iPhoto is 9.1.1.
I have another MacBook Pro, there i have absolutely no issues and there i am using two year old version of iPhoto.
Can anyone help me here?
Thanks
Venu G

First step is to get the photos off the camera and reformat your memory card using the camera's format command
a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and the reformat the card -- I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
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