Using CHDK and Canon .crw files

Hi,
I recently installed the CHDK hack on a point and shoot canon underwater camera which is great as I can now save the files as RAW - iphoto does not recognize the resulting .crw raw files - I presume this is because they are from a camera that is not supposed to have RAW capability. I have since converted the files to DNG files but iPhoto still does not recognise them (Photoshop CS3 does)
Has anyone managed to get Raw files created by CHDK to work in iPhoto?
regards
Mike

Thanks Terence,
I think if there was some way of adding a new entry to Raw.plist it could be solved for any camera / format - I know it was possible in the past.
I thought that by running the .dng file I created in "dng4ps-2" through Adobe DNG converter it would work but both iPhoto and Aperture must be still reading the camera model,
I will keep searching,
regards
Mike

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