Aperture 2 not importing .nef images from scanner... works in LR2 though.

Hi,
I have been looking at Aperture 2 and Lightroom 2 recently to see which one I'd like to use long term. I generally feel more comfortable with Aperture and it's controls (the sliding scale controls vs increase/decrease buttons) and Aperture's auto grouping of master and adjusted virtual copies but while Lightroom imports the range of image types I have, Aperture refuses to display the .nef images I have from negative scans. I can see the thumbnail but the preview is the "Unsupported Image Format" box. I have Camera RAW 5.2 installed on the computer and Photoshop CS3, which also can't open my .nef files.
As background, I have a Powermac G5 dual 2.5GHz with 3.5GB ram running OSX (10.5.6). I'm scanning from a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED using Nikon Scan 4 at full resolution (4000dpi) to 14 bit .nef format raw files (~130MB/image). The Aperture version is 2.1.2
I can't figure out weather it's something with Aperture or something with my system, considering lack of PS support (even after swapping in the latest Camera Raw plugin into the System Library).
Anyone have any thoughts? I'd like to be able to get this sorted before I have to make a definitive choice.
Thanks

@MacDLS-
It was really either 16-bit Nef or Tiff and it was a legacy decision that I've just lived with. I get that there are differences between a Camera Nef and a Scanner Nef as the camera imprints metadata in there that is irrelevant in the case of the scans and that the Scanner is recording R, G and B data for each pixel but whatever. I gathered that if I used Tiff, my saves would be permanent, similar to jpeg, whereas Nef is Raw-like in the sense that I can reverse adjustments to the master, which is more appealing than duplicating every Tiff for a mater copy and an adjustment copy (+ other adjustment copies). But I could easily be misguided, I'm no pro.
Another consideration was that many of these scans are unlikely to see future rescans, so it's not like I am of the mindset that I will just be rescanning stuff with the next super-scanner of the future down the line. These are the archival digital negatives as far as I'm concerned.
As far as being only useful in Nikon software, they do work fine in Lightroom 2 and...
I realized CameraRaw version 5.XX is CS4 specific and was the limiting factor for Photoshop. I reverted to the CameraRaw 4.6 plugin and everything was gravy as far as Photoshop... still no luck with Aperture 2 though.
So Nikon Scanned Nef files, go for Adobe software, no go for Aperture... unless I'm 'doing it wrong' ???

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