With iPhoto 06, when i plugged my iPhone in it would work with out a problem.
Well last night iPhoto 08 stopped auto-opening when I plugged in my iPhone. I did some prodding around and after resetting the "perform when connected" command in Image capture it would automatically open...for an hour or so.
After taking some more pictures of a baseball game I was at, and some other events Image capture no longer would recognize the iPhone and neither would iPhoto. Infact the only way i could get these photos to upload was to restart my Mac.
I believe this to be an iPhoto problem, since I never had this issue w/ iPhoto06, but thought i'd pass it on anyway to see if anyone else has had this issue.