LR 1.3 import speed

Are there preferences or some other settings that can be adjusted to significantly improve the import speed?
On a system with an e6700 processor, SATA mirror drives, and 4GB of memory running XP64 - I dump a dozen or so directories with around 9500 .dng files total, and LR takes forever to get them imported... This thing has been sitting here churning for over 2 hours and its still not done......
Images, cache, swapfile, and product are all on separate spindles, so I presume there's got to be some setting (or settings) I have dreadfully wrong for things to be this slow... So, what do I change to speed this up 'cause this is only about 20% of what I'm organizing and I'd rather not have LR take a week to just import the images?

Since LR is STILL churning I can't look at the preferences, but I thought there was something that told it to just use whatever was in the imported image? If so, shouldn't this get rid of this insanely long process of rendering? Or is this just one of those things I'll have to start when I go to bed and hope its managed to do a few thousand images by morning?...
Are ALL these tools this poor performing? I haven't tried this in iView or one of the others, but if they're significantly faster I can see dumping LR back on the shelf until something gets done to improve this.

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Interesting import speed comparison vs Lightroom and Photo Mechanic from apertureexpert.com:
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Eeish Stephen, that is not fun
Try sandisk rescue pro. as you are using Sandisks, you'll either have a tiny disk ( that wont fit into your laptop) or a serial number for the program and a link to download.
Disk utility.app, that may work for you as you are on a mac like I am
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I've formatted chips in my camera, prior to taking photos off several times, and after saying a few BAD WORDS taken that chip out , shot with another chip and once home I've used sandisk rescue pro and got all the photos back.
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Hi all,
For a long time now, I have been experiencing painfully slow (copy) import speed from memory cards to Lightroom.
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Thanks for the comment Matulaitis.
I find it rather silly that getting new photos into Lightroom in the first place is painfully slow.
But that's not a problem major enough to be fixed asap by Adobe, I would guess.
Matulaitis wrote:
I finally gave up importing directly into Lightroom due to slow speed and stalling/failing import issues.
Now I copy the files from the card to the folder using another software utility, then synch the new stuff into the catalog. This works without problems, all same hardware.
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Dell Dimension 4600 Windows XP
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You are right it is not consistent, even with the same disk. I cancelled an import, ejected the disk, re-inserted, started importing again at normal speed.
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