How secure are my photos in Aperture?

This is following on from another question I asked the other day about how best to organise my library.
Prior to using Aperture I used to store all of my photos in two directories. RAW files where stored in one called Digital Negatives and high res TIFF files in once called Final Prints.
This is my current workflow:
1. Create folder in Digital Negatives directory named after shoot date and download all photos into it.
2. Create a new project in Aperture and import the photos as referenced material.
3. Do all the neccassary RAW processing etc and, if required open certain files in External Editor (Photoshop), save those changes and this updates the version in Aperture.
So far so good, so far so simple.
However it strikes me that in doing this I'm not actually creating a new file to store in my Final Prints. If Aperture where to stop working (something I've read in these forums when applying an update) I have no access to my finished photos. If I were to ever decide to stop using Aperture I'd loose all my edits etc. Ultimately yes I would still have my RAW files but the idea of having to re-process several thousand files and trying to recreate the image exactly as it originally was is going to be nigh on impossible.
So, is it safe to just leave Aperture to handle all of my files like this or should I as a matter of course export all photos that I want to keep as high res tiffs?

We just finished a podcast interview with Joe Schorr (prd. mgr) that'll be up at ApertureProfessional.com in a few days, but the bottom line is this...
If you reference your images, and your library were to vanish, with no backup at all, you still would have your original raw files. You'd just be missing your adjustments, keywords, etc. But as the other posters said, you need to back up any type of file that is crucial to you.
However, the comment "even if Aperture were to stop working" isn't something that could happen. The program Aperture is not the library of files it creates. If your copy of Aperture were to somehow stop working, you could just reinstall it. Or, if your computer died and you had your library backed up, you'd could just move that library to any other computer. Aperture wont' "stop working" on any universal level.
Even if, hypothetically, Apple were to go out of business tomorrow, the copies of Aperture on your computers would still work. Whether stored in the Library or stored as referenced files, they're still stored as their original raw files, and any program that can edit those can read them.
Even better, you can, if you're really concerned, periodically export your images along with XMP sidecars, then you could just pick right up in Adobe Bridge and keep going.
Incidentally, files that live in the Library are still not locked in. The library's just one big folder. If you right click on it and select "Show Package Content" you'll be able to navigate through a folder structure of your images that matches the layout of your projects.
I go into this more in depth here:
http://www.apertureprofessional.com/showthread.php?t=939

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