Aperture 3.0 Library corrupt?! What to do

I have a serious problem! Aperture 3.0 crashes whenever i try to open my Library; but also when i try one of the 3 repair options! A fresh library works without any problems.
Before installing A3 today, I was exporting all the projects.
Installed A3, created a fresh library.
Imported the exported libraries.
So far everything was working optimal, so i pumped the A2 projects and libraries. (go regain the space)
Then I started importing the iPhoto 09 library. that took some time, but also finished.
This is where the things started to get problematic. It started "processing" something.
The Mac got slower, and hotter. Activity window showed like "rebuilding face thumbnails".
Queued was one more thing to process all the imported photos.
When the face stuff was almost done, i went for something to drink, when i came back the mac screen was black, and did not wake up any more. So i waited but no HDD activity, but even while getting cooler it still did not make a sound, did not wake up, screen stayed black, …
so after some more waiting i decided to restart the mac by pressing the power button 5sec and then turn it on again.
That's where i realized my mac was hit hard. Spotlight was reindexing the HDD from 0.
I tried to open Aperture, it opens (quite fast by the way) but then crashes even faster.
I tried repairing the Library -> aperture crashes
I tried rebuilding the Library -> aperture crashes
I tried repairing the Library permissions -> completes, and then aperture crashes
Main problem is that there is no backup for the aperture 2 data
Does anyone has an idea how to fix that?

Personally i recovered from that, but it was not really painless.
Created a copy of the aperture bundle. and then removed i think the Database/folders folder, and after that it was able to rebuild the database.
The recovered photos where all there, but the folder/project structure was lost, … no surprise, and not a huge problem, .. using smart folders i got things sorted quickly.
since i learned my lesson i exported the aperture data after i had it sorted into a fresh library to restart from there.
first thing there was to add a vault which i now update after each import …(i'm using a local vault on the same disk for now, and will add vault on a dedicated USB drive when i get back to my place where i have the spare drives)
for me it got a bit better, even if it is still regularly crashing on huge load.
so what i did is to put a button into the toolbar to display the activity window.
and each time after some import when it starts the processing i pause for example thumbnail creation until processing is done (i let run only one CPU intense task)
aperture crashed also this time after importing the iphoto library, but fortunately the aperture library is still working and i just had to restart and finishing processing.
ps: since it seems to depend on CPU intense tasks and not in disk i/o i tried to lower apertures priority with "renice" terminal command, surprisingly that made it crash within about 5 seconds during image processing. this is the opposite of what i expected and so my guess is that it might be a problem with OpenCL and my integrated Intel graphic card (that makes the mac freeze)
That would be logical since less CPU power would lead to heavier outsourcing to GPU, and kill it faster.
That all leads to the question: Is it really using OpenCL, and iff so, is OpenCL supported for integrated graphic processors at all?
Maybe you can tell what system configuration you have?

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*The Problem:*
Aperture 3 keeps crashing on my newly converted library. The error I get is a KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE error but it only happens when aperture is processing previews! If I startup A3 while holding the shift key down A3 runs fine but as soon as it tries to process new previews it instantly crashes with same error every time. I've so far tried the following:
1) rebuilt the A2 library before converting.
2) reprocessed all masters after converting.
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4) Moved all the files to a brand new hard drive.
5) rebuilt the A3 library numerous times.
6) attempted to deleted all previews and regenerate them after successfully reprocessing all masters.
8) I've even reinstalled OS X 10.6 and that wasn't it either
So I am pretty sure this is a data corruption error but I can't track it down and can't find a solution. Does anybody have any ideas?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Process: Aperture [676]
Path: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Identifier: com.apple.Aperture
Version: 3.0 (3.0)
Build Info: Aperture-1001211744~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [243]
Date/Time: 2010-02-23 18:29:36.211 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 136519 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 20
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 101232 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 18
Anonymous UUID: 1C65FB3C-AD36-4CA5-965C-431A55EF9AC7
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x000000011b7291c0
Crashed Thread: 24
Thread 23:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83dfbe9a semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83e3a6e2 pthread_condwait + 1015
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff86410d63 -[NSCondition waitUntilDate:] + 399
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff864040b2 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:beforeDate:] + 238
4 com.apple.proxtcore 0x0000000101496b11 -[XTMsgQueue waitForMessage] + 49
5 com.apple.proxtcore 0x000000010148b743 -[XTThread run:] + 355
6 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff863d6e99 _NSThread__main_ + 1429
7 ??? 0x00007fff00000004 0 + 140733193388036
8 ??? 0x3f80000000000000 0 + 4575657221408423936
Thread 24 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fffffe008b7 __memcpy + 279
1 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8104a9ca feclip_polygonedge + 497
2 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8104a61a fefragment_renderquad + 1073
3 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8104780a feswquad + 521
4 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff810475b0 fecontextquad + 35
5 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8104041f fetree_render_apply1 + 1880
6 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103aaf7 fetree_renderapply + 1611
7 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff810394fb fetree_render + 1674
8 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103a083 fetree_render + 4626
9 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103cf26 fetree_rendertexture + 55
10 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103cd8a texture_retain + 711
11 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103c8ee fetexturenew + 656
12 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103b199 fetree_createtexture + 1316
510 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103cd8a texture_retain + 711
511 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8103c8ee fetexturenew + 656
Thread 25:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83dfbe9a semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83e3a6e2 pthread_condwait + 1015
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff86410d63 -[NSCondition waitUntilDate:] + 399
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff864040b2 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:beforeDate:] + 238
4 com.apple.proxtcore 0x0000000101496b11 -[XTMsgQueue waitForMessage] + 49
5 com.apple.proxtcore 0x000000010148b743 -[XTThread run:] + 355
6 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff863d6e99 _NSThread__main_ + 1429
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83e34f8e pthreadstart + 331
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83e34e41 thread_start + 13

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The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
Keywording takes time to set up, there's no doubt about it. I use Keyword Manager as it's much more powerful than the inbuilt system, and adds the possibility of nested keywords. So, for instance, if I add John to a photo it also adds 'Family'. Now I can add many keywords to a pic quickly.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.
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