Problem loading photos from digital camera

Hi - I've looked at the various posts on this topic but none of them seems to match the problem I'm having. I simply cannot get my Macbook to import photos from my Kodak camera. I get a few pictures to import, but the rest just appear as dotted line frames. There's nothing wrong with the camera - I can import them to my husband's Macbook no problem. So what's with mine I wonder? I'd be really grateful for some advice. Thanks.

Hmmm, after I read my own post I realized that there was something I could try. I took the memory card out of the Easyshare Kodak V550 and put it in the Kodak Playsport, then connected the playsport to my mac. When iPhoto launched it showed all the photo thumbnails on the SD card and had dotted outlines for all the videos. I chose to Import All and it worked fine.
I then took the SD card out of the Playsport, put it in the Easyshare and formatted it on the camera. I then took one photo and one video and plugged the Easyshare into the mac.
I saw in iPhoto the complete photo thumbnail but only dotted lines around the video. When I tried to Import All I got the error that there was a problem downloading a file. When I tried to import only the photo, I got the error that the file, "100123.JPG" was in an unrecognizable format. So something is happening in the communication between the camera and the software. The SD card is fine and can be read. The camera WAS working prior to a software update.
Hope that helps.

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