Negative images and blank thumbnails on import

I tried importing some old personal photos that I have on CD from a family tree album. Most of the photos are very old that were scanned. After import, many of them show up as black thumbnails. When I double click, the images show up as what appears to be a negative image. I tried importing them into photoshop and the photo is fine. Even the preview is fine when I click on the file name on the CD. I tried saving it to the desktop and then importing it again into iphoto. Still the same result. I did find a small thread on this discussions forum that said to change the ownership and permissions of the iphoto library folder.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1853597&#1853597
Unfortunately that did not do the trick...any help would be appreciated.

Rob:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Those files are were scanned to a grayscale format with an RBG color profile added. You'll need to strip that color profile from those files so that iPhoto will render them correctly. One way to do that is to export them from iPhoto changing them to tiff in the process. Then import the tiff files. They will be rendered OK. That will increase the size somewhat. If you export them to the desktop as jpgs and then convert to tiff with Preview and 100% quality the increase in file size will be very slight. A 777KB file I tested went to 1.2MB in the process.
Photoshop Elements can do a Save As and not embed the color profile which will make it iPhoto compatible. GraphicConverter can do it by resetting the Color to grayscale (under the Pictures->Colors->Grayscale menu option) and then saving. Or you can batch change with GC.
Do you Twango?
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