A script to identify pictures in the Finder not added to Aperture?

Does anyone know of a script that can check out the contents of a folder containing a series of nested folders holding files that are being referenced in the Aperture Library and point out the files in that folder which have not been added to the Aperture Library?
The majority of the files in that folder (thousands) are being actively referenced in my Aperture Library, but for whatever reason that I won't get into, a few hundred pictures that are in that folder somewhere have had their links to Aperture broken and it would be great if I could identify which files those were and hook them back up to Aperture.
These are all pretty old pictures that I likely won't ever need to be touching ever again, so if the solution is going to be a massive re-doing of my Library, then it won't be worth it, but if it can be done relatively easily then, ya know…it'd be nice to have the Library be "perfect" and free from broken links

Thanks for your reply.
What you are suggesting is part of the process that I am using to reconnect these missing files.
The part that I am needing help with is the "If you direct Aperture to the first of those missing masters" aspect. There are so many pictures in my reference library location (all nester in folders, so I can't just use Coverflow to skim through them and find the missing file to reconnect) that it would be extremely time consuming for me identify the correct file.
Even if I do a spotlight search for "DSC_00413" in that folder, I get back ~500 results.
This is why I feel that the script option to consolidate all of those "unconnected to Aperture" files in one folder, where I can then use Coverflow to identify them would be most effective.
EDIT: I manged to do it though, by using Aperture's "Relocate Masters" command to move all files linked to Aperture to another location, thus leaving all "unconnected" files in their current location

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