Searching for a list of photos

From my Aperture library of many tens of thousands of photos, I exported a few thousand low-resolution versions to my wife's computer. From there, she selected a few hundred of those files that she likes. I thought it would be relatively straightforward for me to now recreate an album of the high-res originals in my Aperture library based on her selections. It hasn't been.
My strategy was to create a Smart Album and search for version names from the list of files she selected. I managed to create a long comma-delimited list of the filenames she selected from my Terminal. (Like this: S7302576, S7302662, etc.) The Aperture manual said that I could text search on multiple criteria by separating with a comma. However, now that I go to try it I see my strategy does not work. The search box interprets each separate version name as an "AND" search rather than an "OR" search. So of course when I search for more than one unique version name I get zero results rather than the group I want. So now I'm back to square one.
Does anyone have a better suggestion of how I could accomplish this? Anything better than using my eyeballs to manually search thru thousands of photos to recreate her "selection"?
ps: An extra credit question: Of course my wife had to make this project doubly difficult on me because she went ahead and changed the filenames on several of the photos in her selection, so I have no good idea whatsoever as to how I'd recreate in Aperture an album based on these, other than manually searching with my eyeballs. Any ideas here?
Many thanks for any help!

Okay, I searched a little deeper and found a solution to my problem (I guess I should have searched for "horribly tedious"):
http://aperture-assistant.com/post/102
Thank you Ian Wood!
This worked but was much more difficult to do than it should have been. Come on Apple!
I'm still open to suggestions on my extra credit question but have little hope ...

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