Why Lightroom cannot read Nikon Scanner's NEF?

I am trying to scan my old negatives with a nikon coolscan IV. There are optiions for saving the files in NEF raw file format or TIFF format. TIFF format works fine, but Nikon's NEF file format is not openable with Lightroom or Photoshop CS3 or CS2. I also have a Nikon D50 and NEF from the camera are imported and readable by Lightroom and Photoshop. Can anyone explain to me why this is the case, since both are NEF files. Is it the setting of the scan or something else? Is there a fixed for this?
Michael

Nikon's "scanner NEF" files contain EXACTLY the same image data is their TIFF files, just packaged differently in a way that is incompatible with normal TIFF readers such as Lightroom.
We will probably add support for these files in some future version, however this will only be so users don't have to convert these files to normal TIFF files using Nikon software. This future support would have absolutely ZERO quality advantage over just using TIFF in the first place.
In the meantime, just use TIFF with Nikon scanner software. Using "scanner NEF" is a waste of time, and is completely pointless.

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