IPhoto4 quit importing photos - but from one user only ??

Hi, Sorry for the long post but it may save several reply/post exchanges.
iPhoto4.0.3 just decided to no longer import photos from a Canon Digital IXUS V3 - but only for one (managed) user. It still works perfectly for the other (admin) user.
As an administrator, I have tried - on the managed account -(but perhaps not in the correct order!) the following potential solutions learnt from this Forum (mostly thanks to Brie Fly and others helping other folks, ta!):
1. Selecting all items in the /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/ folder
2. Dragging to the trash the file com.apple.iPhoto.plist (located in User's Library/Preferences folder) and then letting the system regenerate it
3. Using Disk Utilities to Repair Disk Permissions on the HD
4. Holding down Shift+Option while opening iPhoto4 to get it to rebuild the iPhoto Library (which it successfully did by producing iPhoto Library-1, so there are now two sets - the original file and the -1 file)
5. Checking that in Image Capture, the option to start iPhoto is checked when a camera is detected
Unfortunately none of this worked for the managed user account, while there had been no problem until now. Of course, I do not know what might have changed to trigger this halt to importing.
What happens on the managed user account is that the camera is plugged into USB, switched on and then iPhoto4 starts up (saying 'loading photos') - so far OK! But then when I try to import, there is no camera recognized. Trying to use the Image Capture application gives a similar non-recognition outcome. When the start-up option is changed from 'start iPhoto' to 'Image Capture' then instead of iPhoto, Image Capture starts up at camera switch-on but there is again no camera recognition. Trying 'Browse Devises' there does not work, either.
Exactly the same camera, cable, battery, etc. combination still works without any problems on the admin account: both iPhoto (if set for start-up) or Image Capture start up correctly, recognize the camera and can import photos from it.
As usual, the camera card was formatted immediately prior to this set of photos having been recorded on it.
Interesting... All suggestions extremely welcome! And special thanks to all who volunteer their time by sharing valuable expertise and experience. Cheers!

Hi and Thanks to all who helped!
PhillyPhan - as one engineer to another - I am an inveterate grammar fanatic also! (What is it with engineers, maybe we're trained to attempt to eliminate all possible errors?!)
Creating a new non-admin user was the key as it gave a possibility for comparison of all details - because the new user account happily imported into iphoto4 from the camera immediately.
The secret was (after much checking of details in each non-admin user's preferences, etc.) that the new user account showed as 'standard' while the problematic one was 'managed'.
Apparently, 'standard' means a non-admin user (without any restrictions) while 'managed' means a non-admin user with some restrictions (set by the 'admin' user under the Parental Controls tab to apply to the 'managed' user).
Simply removing the Parental Controls from the 'managed' user account - thus making it into a 'standard' user account - solved the importing problem immediately.
There must have been some obscure restriction(s) imposed onto iphoto under the 'managed' settings (even though I had tried to make available all options that I could find). I had set up the 'managed' status a long time ago (much prior to the importing problem arising) in an attempt to cure an earlier unrelated application access problem.
All is well now and I really appreciate all the help (also gleaned from earlier posts by others). Cheers!

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