Stopped importing from Kodak

Hey,
I have been using iPhoto 9 with my Kodak Z1275 for the last year without problem. However I am trying to get some recent photos from my camera and iPhoto cannot get them.
When I connect my camera iPhoto loads as usual and after a time my camera is mounted. It begins to load the photos then it stops. After a while the white dotted squares appear but it wont go any further to actually display the pictures. If I try to import them anyway it says that it can't and they in the wrong format.
I have also tried to use Image Capture but that says the same. It took three attempts to scan the camera as it kept freezing up before it found all the images but most of them are "not in the right format" and it won't import them either.
The only change I can think of that has caused this problem is updating my OS to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 but I can't be sure.
I scanned for software updates and it did have one for iPhoto but it was a compatibility update for Canon cameras and nothing for mine.
Can anyone tell me if this really is the cause or think of any way for me to resolve this issue? Any help would be much appreciated.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
This may be caused by directory damage on the Camera Card. Try recover the photos using a recover utility like MediaRecover. Then reformat the card with your camera.
Regards
TD

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