Is there a way to open a corrupted image?

I took about 80 photos with my Canon PowerShot A590 last week of very cool street art in SF.  About 7 of the photos were of artists doing their work ... a one time opportunity to catch this.  Later that day I looked back at those photos in the camera and they were there and looked terrific.  However, when I downloaded them into iPhoto, those 7 photos were unreadable.  Message said that " Files are unreadable.  Unrecognizable format."  They are showing up as jpeg images when iPhoto sees them on the card reader.
When I try opening those 7 photos in the card reader with PS CS4, I get "Could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found.
Any thoughts on how to open it with Photoshop CS4?
I have tried recovering them using 3 different sets of photo recovery software ... to no avail.  Below is a description of a "recovered" file.
It looks like the photo markers between the 8 images was lost and it is now read as one big 2.4 MB image, whereas the other photos are more like 400 KB.  (I'm purposely taking low res.)
Anyway, with the "recovered" file from the last software, Photoshop CS4 will open it with the message "This document may be damaged (the file may be truncated or incomplete). Continue?".  The left 2/3's of the image is white, followed by a black strip, and then a vertical strip of the photo.  However, the thumbnail shows a complete image.
I know this is useless ... damn.  I don't know how I screwed it up, but I'm pretty sure going back and viewing these photos several times messed it up somehow.
Obviously, I really want those 7 photos.
Suggestions?
If you got this far, you are really patient.  :-)  Many thanks!

Thanks, Danny.  I just reformatted right before I got your message. 
However, I have tried and retried using both my Mac and PC, plugging and unplugging.  Also took it to a camera store and they tried it on two of their machines that they use to recover images.
I've been like a dog with a bone on this thing.  Still don't want to give up if there is something I can do with those files downloaded using Graphics Converter.  I think it will require a photo surgeon :-) now that I've reformatted the card.
I think the problem was caused when I went speeding through the review several times during the day to show people.  Then I let it set on the table open to those files, and perhaps pressed the wrong button to "wake" it up.  I called Canon about this and they said there was nothing I could do with the camera that would cause this ... fingers pointed to the memory card.  Whatever.  I know when we go out shooting today I will not be doing a lot of fast previewing until I get the images downloaded.

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