You can always download Adobe's DNG converter, and use that format. You'll lose the Nikon proprietary color info, but I don't think ACR uses that info, so you shouldn't see any difference.
May give that a try tonight. Thanks.
Don't forget about the Gallery. Are your photos there??
Nikon Samurai #13
"A photographer is known by what he shows not by what he throws. The best photographers have the biggest trash cans." Quote from Nikon School sometime in the early 1970's.