Aperture 2.1.4 cropping makes images seem to vanish

Hello everyone, I am running Aperture 2.1.4 on Mavericks and my images that have been cropped all disappear. Does anyone know why this is happening?
When Mavericks came out I wanted to do a clean install so I formatted my hard drive. Before doing that I created a vault and had my time machine backup in place so I thought my photos would be protected. Once I installed Aperture and tried to import the vault I found out that most of my pictures that I had in my "Keeper" smart album were just black rectangles once I clicked on them. The thumbnails show the picture but once I click it to make it larger it flashes for a second (I assume this is the thumbnail while the real image loads) then goes black. This seems to only happen with cropped images. Other images still display fine after any adjustment besides cropping.
Has anyone else experienced this issue/do you know how to fix it?

Aperture 2.1.4 is unsupported on OS X Mavericks and there are known issues that have been reported here.
I think you can roll back to an older OS X version (Snow Leopard?) or pay the $79.00 to upgrade to Aperture 3.5.1.

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