Nikon D300 NEF Lightroom Issue

Hello,
I was on a photo shoot this morning and went to import my NEF's and basic JPG's into Lightroom. For some reason lightroom wont recognize the files. ANy idea why? Photoshop will and so wil ACR but I would like to ad them into my lightroom catalogue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ben

I just tried using Adobe's latest DNG conversion app and I get the error "There was an access permission error". I have a feeling that my SanDisk 4GB Extreme IV card is the problem but not sure what exactly to do. Can someone look at one of my files and see if they can see the issue or at least see if they can import it to Lightroom.
Ben

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I always shoot in both JPEG and RAW modes. When I open Bridge I always see each JPEG version of a shot.
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I've finally solved the problem with having only some of my NikonD300 NEF files viewable in Bridge/readable by Photoshop! Jon Michael Riley had said he was having similar problems so I wanted to make sure he and anyone else has the info on what worked for me.
The issue does not have anything to do with purging the thumbnail cache or installing the latest version of Camera RAW 4.4.1. While they were good suggestions (offered by Adobe's Technical support people also), they do not resolve this particular issue.
I read that an earlier version of what Jon described as "Nikon's clunky software" had corruption issues when images were first transfered from the camera via Nikon PictureProject Transfer. It looks like the latest incarnation has the same issues. Nikon products can see the transfered images without a problem. HOWEVER, Adobe Bridge/Photoshop cannot rectify the corruption issue caused by transferring photos using Nikon's utility.
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Unfortunately I have not figured out how to repair the corruption in the files I transfered earlier using Nikon's piece of garbage software. Since I don't have the images on memory cards anymore I can't just re-transfer them. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to do this? Will I ever be able to access my earlier NEF shots?
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