Lightroom 4.2 hangs on import

Hi Canon 5d3with a fast CF card. I plug the camera into my Windows 7 laptop, fire up Lightroom 4.2, hit import, and all the new photos are tagged for import. I press import and 4 or 5 photos import and Lightroom just hangs without importing any others. The program shows as still responding in the Task Manager. I close the program, detach and reattach the camera and get another 4 or 5 photos. So if I have a bust day of shooting I have to go throgu this process many times to get of my photos imported. Where do I start fixing this?
thanks

Try copying the files to your hard drive from Windows Explorer. Then try importing them into Lightroom from the hard drive.
Do you get the same behavior in either case?

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I really appreciate your offer to help. I have not worked through a forum before but I am assuming you are an Adobe employee, right? It would not seem fair to ask for this much help from someone who was not an Adobe employee.
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