RAW photo importing/editing

I've seen this issue brought up in other threads, but I've yet to find an adequate solution.
I'm trying to import RAW CR2 files from my Canon Rebel XS, which Apple's website says Snow Leopard can support. I have no problem seeing them in the viewer, but when I try to import them, iPhoto says it's an unrecognized format. I tried in Lightroom and Photoshop -- both also say it's unable to import or edit. I was able to import through Adobe Bridge, but I can't open it in anything successfully.
Help!

You could perhaps have an issue with your operating system or user account.
you might try creating a new user account on your computer (you can delete it later if you wish), import some of those files in that account and see if they behave the same way.
You might also try those same RAW files on another computer completely for comparison.
Good luck,
Patrick

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I believe that the 5100 will work on iPhoot 09 and 10.6.8 and these issues:
I selected one of the RAW photos and attempted to edit it. iPhoto entered the edit window, but the image appeared blurry and all of the editing tools were grayed out. Photo editing works fine with the jpeg files in my event. Also, when I double click one of the RAW images it opens it as a gray exclamation point icon.
are due to the fact that iPhoto cannot find the Raw file - that's what the ! means.
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Actually you need to point them to either Adobe Camera RAW, ACR, and or Photoshop. Bridge is only a image File Management program and used to open either ACR or Photoshop to edit images.
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