Best Way to import from iPhoto to Aperture?

I am working with an iPhoto library of 40,000 images, which is about several hundred GB in size. The direct import of the iPhoto library doesn't seem to work - i.e. - Aperture shows in the activity window that it is processing 40,000 images, but it hangs after this initial step, and never succeeds in building the new library. Is there a workaround for this?
If not, what is the next best options? I see that I can open the iPhoto browser in Aperture, and drag photos across into projects. Also, via import, I can select iPhoto albums from the iPhoto Library folder, and import them that way.
What is the best way to go?
The computer has plenty of power - dual 2.8 Mac Pro, 6GB of RAM, etc., so I don't think that is the problem.
Thanks.

Unfortunately, it did seem to "hang" it ran for much of an afternoon, then overnight, and still appeared to be "stuck" - never got an error, and ultimately had to force quit, and try something else.
Might simply try dragging photos from the built-in Aperture iPhoto Browser into new Projects in Aperture. This would let us do it in batches, rather than 40,000 images all at once.
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

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    2. "Hidden" photos. The "hide/unhide" feature is the best tool iPhoto provides for sorting "good" pictures from "bad" in a shot, so I have used it extensively. I would like to not lose this information when migrating to Aperture (even if it takes a different form -- maybe "reject"?), and it would certainly be nice to be able to optionally either browse all photos in a shot or only those that were not hidden when in iPhoto.
    Is there any hope?
    (Context: I've been using iPhoto for years, but I really like Aperture's interface and photo tuning/editing options. I've considered migrating a number of times and have always turned back because of how much information I'd lose in the migration. Has anyone managed to crack the code... or has Apple finally made this transition doable?)

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