Why can't I import my new photos from my iPhone 4 anymore?

Recently I restored my phone with the new OS5 update. I lost the password to my backup so I had to start over. Now I go to import my photos into iPhoto. In iPhoto, I see thumbnail slots that represent the photos on my iPhone (if you click on the thumbnail slot it actually even says all the info about the photo under the information section), but no actual thumbnails. I select import all and it says "iPhoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem downloading an image." So I said, cool, well maybe it's because the file numbers are doubled up because I started over with my new software and a new backup file. I open image capture and it shows all the photos as thumbnail slots here too, but no actual thumbnail photos. I hit download all and it quickly goes through and looks like it's downloading everything. After it's done, I check the target folder and there are NO photos. I've done it over and over and gotten nothing. Now I can't get my new photos off of my phone. Help!!!

I restarted my computer and iPhoto recognized the photos right away. When in doubt, restart.

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