Lightroom 3 - some imported files corrupted

I recently discovered a strange problem. Every once in a while I find files imported by lightroom from my CF card are getting corrupted. Maybe corruption isn't the right word because the files are still readable, but they aren't the same as the file on the CF card. See the example screenshot below of a RAW file that shows this problem.
When I discovered this file in lightroom I went back to the CF card and copied the same file to my hard drive and imported it into lightroom and there was nothing wrong with it. This is the 2nd time this has happened to me and it is something I have only noticed within the last couple of weeks. I haven't done any updates to lightroom recently. I'm using lightroom 3.2.
To make matters even worse I just discovered today that the lightroom import is also corrupting video files only with video files it is not immediately obvious until you play them from start to finish and discover a split second smearing or glitch during playback. Just like the RAW files the damaged video files were fixed by simply copying them from the CF card and overwriting those imported by lightroom.
I compared sizes of the corrupted RAW file and good RAW file and the corrupted file was about 90 kilobytes smaller. With video files that was not the case. They were identical in size.
Is anyone else having this issue? Logically I don't see how lightroom would be causing this problem as I suspect it is only using operating system file copy functions to perform this operation, but with the corrupt versus good RAW file sizes differing it certainly points to something not being handled the same way when imported by lightroom.
Some additional details regarding my setup.
27" iMac running snow leopard 10.6.5
Image and Video files from a Canon 7D
Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CF card
Lightroom version 3.2
Mark

Hi,
I have discovered the same or a least a similar problem on my PC. LR3.3 says in my translated words " Photo aapears to be corruped" (Das Bild ist anscheinend beschädigt).
When searched through the Win7 foren there seem to be more people having that problem - but very little idea of a solution.
On ma PV I worked with the built-in card reader when expirienced the problem first. A short period later the system did not accept 16 GB cards. I used an external reader and everything works fine. But the problem with the corrupted files came (back) infrequently. Now I have to restart my PC before I can read CF cards and import them to LR3. Very strange.
Is there anybody haveing a glue what happens?
I would appriciate any hint.
Henry

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