Mysterious missing images

Hello,
I'm fighting a TERRIBLE problem with my Aperture library and I'd love to see if any of you might be able to help. I've got a library with about 40,500 images. All of them are referenced and I've moved through a couple of different storage drives over the years. I just ran a "manage referenced files" on my whole library and it shows that I have about 600 missing files, spread across three offline drives.
The problem with this is, I don't use those drives any more and I can't find where the missing images are!! I went through every project and did a search for missing images and no project shows a missing image. It only shows itself when I run "manage referenced files." I would just ignore this and use my library normally but it rears its ugly head in one other place: project exporting.
I tried to export a project with 556 masters to put on a laptop. The export gave me an error that some referenced files wouldn't be copied. Problem is, I ran a search for missing or offline referenced files and it returns Zero. I exported the project with the "consolidate referenced images feature" and imported it into my laptop. The 556 images are there, not managed and looking good. If I run a smart search for reference files it doesn't return any. BUT If I run "manage reference files" on the library on my laptop it shows four missing files! It's crazy, I have no clue what's going on.
rebuilt all of my libraries, I've looked at the image folders in the project and I can't figure out what's going on. Can anyone help?

No luck on the smart album, I tried it and it reports no missing images:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/24218107220895a27c5fo.png
I also tried the opposite and searched for online images and got 556, the correct number.
The problem occurs when I click on the library and run "manage referenced files", this is what I get:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2107/242099628501416543c1o.png
The thing is, the 556 images in this library are ONLY managed - there shouldn't be any referenced images. If you notice, that screen shot shows a master file with the name IMG_1151, but if I run a smart search on the project for "1151" I get no results:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/242099643102bbf57fbfo.png
So there are four "phantom" images that are reported as in the library that don't really exists. So frustrating! I'd love your other ideas for how to squash this bug.

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1. Copying images: Investigation. Open a topic in RH and
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x-maintain-ratio=TRUE
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width: 319px;
height: 204px;
float: none;
border-style: none;
border-style: none;"
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height=204
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