Why don't RAW files from iPhoto open in RAW CS5?

I have dragged RAW files into Photoshop from iPhoto and they appear the same as the .jegs. Also, in the dropdown camera info panel, there is no info other than RAW and the file name:( I have a Nikon D5000 camera and am using OSX 10.6.6 All updates that could find have been done. I am not techy savvy so I hope that there is an easy solution. Thanks.

r_r_a_a wrote:
I thought that it was preferrable to do editing on RAW files rather than TIFF for highest image quality.
Yes, it is preferable to do as much editing on the raw files as you can including global and local tone & color correction in Camera Raw...but there is a limit to the work you can do and sometimes you must go ahead and render the raw file into Photoshop for additional work. Then you'll be needing layers and other functionality that can't be done on a raw file. At that point you'll need to save as a TIFF or PSD. If you work in 16 bit and a large enough color space, the TIFF or PSDs will still be capable of the highest quality...as others have indicated, the Photoshop .raw file format ain't for photography per se.

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