No seriously... I've been struggling with DPP all week, and then suddenly today, Lightroom opens up and can actually SEE the files! They are full sized RAW files which previously, could only be viewed and processed in DPP... and no, absolutely no updates. WT... H?
huh. I have no clue. I was frustrated all week because LR wouldn't recognize the files, but now that I think of it, I think I might have had my RAW setting set to MRAW... and today I switched to the full sized RAW. That must have been what it was! Thanks for helping me figure that out!!!