Unsupported Image Format After External Editor

I have Aperture set up with Photoshop Elements 6 for MAC as the external editor. I have PSD(16bit) 300 dpi. I have used this external editor several times in the last two days. The most recent time I had a problem. It started PSE 6 as requested and displayed the picture with a *.pdf filename. I used the filter option I wanted and was satisfied with the result in PSE 6. I saved the file and quit PSE. It came back to Aperture and displayed two images: the original on the left and the edited on the right. After one or two seconds the image on the right (the result of the edit) was replaced by a dark red background with the black text Unsupported Image Format displayed. If I click on the right image, the edited image appears briefly and then reverts back to the error display.
As I said, I used this only the night before several times with no problems and I have not changed my Aperture preferences since then. The master file is a Canon cr2 file and I did some Aperture corrections before I decided I needed to run a filter in PSE 6.
Thanks,
Bruce

I'm having a similar problem with unsupported images. The problem has occurred when I use an external program to create an image. I've tried creating them as TIFF and JPEG. If I use the Sony Image Data Converter (v2 or v3) I get the unsupported image format.
Last night I was scanning film with Silverfast, creating TIFF files and using them in Aperture 2 as referenced files. Everything was fine. This morning I did the same thing and got the red Unsupported Image Format screen from the same original image.
I have found if I import the unsupported image into the Aperture library instead of using it as a referenced file it usually works. I don't like this solution because it messes with my work flow and I'm trying to keep the size of my Aperture Library under control.

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