Aperture 2.0 Corrupt export on D300 RAW image?

I've been experimenting with Aperture 2.0 to see if I want to upgrade my 1.5.2 install, and have run into a problem where an image looks just fine in Aperture but when I try exporting it (JPEG or TIFF, 8 or 16 bit) there's terrible banding and corruption in the background.
http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/images/BadApertureExport.jpg
Has anyone else had a chance to play around with adjustments on D300 raw images and have they run into anything like this?

I was having the same problem, this was my older post:
I have been seeing many artifacts after starting to export from Aperture 2.0,
Camera used canon 5D
1. I see color pixel that are not visible in raw, or processes with Capture one
http://boinghost.com/aperture/pixel.jpg
2. A banding problem separated the picture in 3 sections..
http://boinghost.com/aperture/banding.jpg
has anybody a solution?
I don't see it with in the application, i think that is a bug that need fixing.
it should not show in the exported image if it doesn't show in Aperture, even if you take the recovery slider to maximum.

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