RAW images appearing as JPEG in Lightroom

Hi there,
I have recently installed the latest version of Lightroom on my Apple iMac, when I import RAW files (NEF) from my hard drive (they are in iphoto) into LR they show up in LR as jpegs rather then NEF files. Is there something I am not doing correctly? I did not encounter this problem when I used to use LR with RAW files with Windows Vista on my laptop, they appeared in Lightroom as NEF files not jpegs.
Thanks for your help

This is the Camera Raw Forum...the Lightroom Forum is down the hall. You would be better off asking there.

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