Lightroom 4.3 hangs when importing photos on OSX10.8.3 [was: Hello]

I installed and updated Lightroom 4.3 . I have a macbook pro with Software OS X 10.8.3 . How long should importing 1 photo take? it seems to hang if I try to drag and drop 1 photo for a couple minutes and still doesnt load - is there a problem with LR 4.3 not working on this particular OS? Even if I try to import a folder it hangs and hangs until I cancel it. Several minutes.
can anyone help?

Victoria,
Thank you for your response. It gives me hope!
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.
In any case I should try your first suggestion of letting LR run. I know I have let it run about an hour and I may have tried over night. At what point would you give up on that approach?
In answer to your question of size I just went to check it out and found it is 145 MB. I have lots of photos marked with 1 star that I plan to delete so I would really like to get the rating functional.
I also noticed eight sets of files that say:
Temporary Import Data - #.db and
Temporary Import Data - #.db-journal
I am wondering if they have anything to do with the problem?
This is a "Yes", I would like help.
Thank you!
Larry

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