IPhoto unrecogzized format

I upgraded to 10.6.8 , iPhoto 9, and now I get "unrecognized format", with my Nikon P4. First time thats happened. Any known issues, I'm up to date on software. Don't quite know how to proceed.

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BTW, I'm on 10.6.3 on this machine (not 10.7 or 10.8).
OK, here's what's going on.
I have a MBP and a MB.
The hard drive on the MB crashed, and Mom didn't have the original iLife disk.
About a year ago, I bought a bigger HDD for the MPB. Stuck the old HDD (snow leopard) in a drawer.
Since old MB hard drive crashed, I grabbed the hard drive that I stuck in the drawer a year ago into the old MB. Surprisingly, it worked (it came out of a MBP, not a MB). That copy seemed to work fine, and had the user accounts I needed. But I didnt like the idea that updates on the drive were really for a MBP, so I installed Snow Leopard over the top of the existing Snow Leopard. Thinks seemed to go well, until I noticed this iPhoto '09 quirk a day later.
As a test, I just now went back and booted the MB off a clone of that MBP--Snow Leopard disk. It boots fine, and when I tried to import a screen shot I got mixed results. Seems I can FILE-->IMPORT a photo, but I cannot drag/drop onto the open application window. I can drag/drop into the icon on the dock. If I remeber right, that was the older iPhoto behavior, except for one thing.... When I drag/drop to the open application window I get that error message that says my JPG is not compatible. But if I drag the same JPG to the icon in the DOCK it works just fine. Very strange behavior.
So my delima is as follows. I am the rightful owner of iLife for this MacBook (MB). I don't have the iLife disk anymore. I have an electronic copy on an external drive which I can boot to and run iPhoto. But for some reason the iPhone on my internal hard drive doens't exhibit the same behavior. I'm really not inclined to buy a separate copy for each version of the OS and for each machine I own. I'm not even convinced that re-buying iLife would solve the problem on this MacBook. Thoughts?

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