Trouble importing images into iPhoto

I have a G5 with Mac OS X 10.4.4 and I am trying to use iPhoto 5.0.4 to create an album.
Some photos can be imported, some not. I do not understand why some can be imported and some cannot.
I seem to be able to import photos originally imported from my camera in to the computer - I think iPhoto handles this.
I have trouble with images copied from a CD-ROM to my hard disk drive (originally the files were on a PC). I'm not sure if all of the CD-ROM photos are not importable or just some.
I can view the pictures as thumbs in Finder, I can view them with Photoshop, and I can view them with Preview.
I get the following error message which is useless as there are no Help searches identifying it (the 1 after Unreadable Files: is in reference to my trying to import a single image. If import 5 images the 1 would be a 5, etc.):
"Unreadable Files: 1
The following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data). "
Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

Here's how I solved my problem - I noticed that files from a camera worked, but not files I copied from a CDROM to my hard drive. That is, for some reason, importing files directly from my hard drive did not work. I tried importing the original files directly from my CDROM and it worked. Apparently there is some sort of import function which needs to occur, but does not occur when one copies them from a CDROM to a hard drive. I believe this to be a software bug with iPhoto - the application should be able to identify jpeg files regardless of the source - PhotoShop, Finder, and Preview have no issue doing so. Regardless, problem solved - thank you to those who responded to my question!

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