Lightroom 5 glitching photos on import.

I've been using Lightroom 5 for about a week without problems. Today I went to import two photo shoots and the images come in fine until LR does a second pass and then they are all glitched.
I'm not doing anything differently with this import than I did with the previous one. Same camera, same CR2 file format, same lens, same subject as well.
Not applying any presets or develop settings.
Anyone know what's going on? This is freaking me out.
BRAND NEW iMac, all software updated.

This is almost always a hardware problem. Some piece of hardware in the chain of transmission from your camera to your hard disk and memory, is bad and is corrupting your images, resulting in what you see.
You need to isolate the inidivdual pieces of hardware one by one, transferring photos using a different piece of hardware, to see if the problem goes away.

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