SD Card Won't Mount But Works In Camera

I have an SD card that just won't mount, I have tried it in two macs running 10.6 and two PC's running XP and with two different card readers. I am trying to recover some images on the card, it has been formatted in the camera & then had two photos taken which were written to it. The odd thing is that if I put the card into a different camera it works, you can see the two photos taken after formatting. Any ideas about how to mount the card so as to run some recovery software?

I have been looking for a fix to the same problem for weeks. I have tracked it to an OS conflict on the MAC.
I have access to several iMACs and MACbook Pros. All the Laptops can read the SD cards. In fact all the iMACs at my school can read the card through my card reader. When I bring the card reader and the SD cards home to my iMAC running 10.6.4 it wont read the card. I also tried the card reader on MACbook Pro running 10.6.5. It does not work.
It can not be the card reader because it works on other MAC running older versions of OS X.
It must be a conflict between the newest versions of OS X and my older card reader.
Does anyone know of a good card reader that is working with 10.6.5 and SD Cards?
Additional information:
I use the SD cards in Canon video cameras and a Kodak Zi8. All are HD video files.
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