Photo 6 RAW photos don't all open in PSE 6 RAW converter

I have iphoto 6 and PSE 6 installed on an Intel iMac OS X 10.4.11 with: 2GB RAM, 250GB HD and over half of that free.
Recently have begun shooting RAW. From iPhoto I have been editing everything in PSE6 without a problem. To open the RAW photos in the "RAW Converter" I have gone to iPhoto preferences, clicked on Advanced tab, and checked the box "Use RAW file with external editor".
My problem is this: Most of the RAW(NEF) photos in iphoto will open in the RAW converter as they are designed to do when I double click on the thumb nails in iPhoto. However, about 25% of them will not go to the converter. They go, instead, to the regular PSE6 editing window as a JPEG, and nothing I can do will get that photo into the RAW converter. And these are photos from the same series just uploaded to iPhoto6. It makes no sense to me.
What am I missing and what can I do to correct this problem. I would appreciate any help anyone can give. Thanks.
David

TD
I'm feeling just a little sheepish right now.
It was your statement that it was either a) I'm imagining it or b) it's a very rare problem. I knew it wasn't (a) and I suspected (b) was probably not it either because too often when something is very rare, there is something simple hidden in the problem.
So I did some serious reviewing of the problem. I tried to think of anything I had done to those 3 photos that kept them from opening in RAW converter, when all others did fine. It suddenly occurred to me that I had cropped those three, and would have done it in iPhoto before going to RAW converter. I "Reverted to Original" all three photos, after which I was able to open all of them in RAW Converter without a problem.
So, MANY thanks, TD, for leading me to the solution. And you also taught me some new techniques. Every little bit helps.
David

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