Adjustment's brush strokes disappearing from adjustment brick.

Good day,
I am having a problem with the brush strokes from my skin smoothing and levels adjustments disappearing (perhaps others also but I haven't noticed those). I have spent a lot of time brushing in the skin smoothing on many images with great results. But twice now, the skin smoothing (and levels where I used those) adjustment's brush strokes have disappeared from the adjustment brick for all of the images. The brick still is there and still is checked on/active but no adjustment is being applied (since it no longer sees or contains the brush strokes). Somehow the internal link between the brush strokes and the adjustment brick have been broken, or the brush strokes deleted themselves en masse.
Has anybody seen this behavior before? Any ideas on why this is happening and if I can re-connect the brush strokes to the images (assuming the brush strokes are still inside the Aperture database somewhere)?
I just now upgraded to Aperture 3.1.2 from the most recent build (I upgrade regularly). The images are high resolution scanned from transparencies as 16bit tiff files. I use a managed library with no referenced images in the library. I have repaired permissions, repaired the database, and rebuilt the database with no positive results.
Please help.
Thanks!
Nils

Thanks for the suggestion and the quick reply too. I've tried it but it seems to only partially work in that I can stamp the first adjustment into a new version of the image and invert it. However I don't seem to be able to get it to stamp it as 2nd curve adjustment. It seems to overwrite the current curve adjustment, if there is one, or create it if there isn't one.
Thus if there is a way to stamp an existing curve adjustment to a new curve brick that would do the trick. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks again for the help.
Best regards

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