Why does Lightroom 4.4 fail to read photos on import?

I insert an SDHC card into a card reader, LR starts, reads the photos and generates a preview so I can select which photos to import. I click on import and LR shows a progress bar that proceeds too quickly. When the progress bar completes LR informs me:
"The following files were not imported because they could not be read. (50)"
50 is the count of files that "could not be read".
1. LR read the files to generate the previews.
2. I can read the files with Explorer and copy them to folders.
3. I can then tell LR to add the folders that I copied to the files to and LR can read them just fine.
This behavior is consistent across multiple SD cards from different cameras with different formats of files (jpeg, nef, mov).
I am running Windows 7.1 64-bit with a quad core i7 and 12GB of memory.

Ok, thanks to all that offered their thoughts and feedback.
The issue was that somehow the directory for imports got set to Users - it was no longer My Pictures. So everyone that dismissed LR's error message ("cannot read files") was on the right track. It could read the files just fine but it couldn't write them.  And of course, LR didn't and shouldn't have permissions to write into the Users directory.
If Adobe had issued a correct error message - can't write file to directory "users" then none of us would have wasted our time here. I apologize to all for not checking to verify that the destination directory was what I had last set it to. Also, if a full path had been provided with the error message then it would have been obvious what the problem was even if the message were wrong.
ssprengel got me on the right track. I was not going to run LR as administrator (that would have actually made the write to Users work but would have been bad) but I did go to change the destination directory and found that it was longer My Pictures.

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