Aperture 3.3 problems RAW+JPG Import

After the update on Aperture 3.3 I have the following problem: Before import everything looks normal (see picture one). Aperture imports none jpg and Raw files as picture pairs and the Raw import looks completely colour-wrong. Moreover, there is no field more than Raw treatment
Any idea for solving this problem?

Also using a Panasonic (.RW2) I have had exactly the same problem, with exactly the same "colour effects". I did some varitions of importing and observed the following. The test shots were RAW only on a newly initialized SDHC card.
In the import dialog, if RAW only was selected, no previews were shown. Same if JPG only. If RAW & JPG selected, a preview was shown (even there were no jpgs on the card).
No presets, Auto Enhance and several others had no effect (i.e. same error).
The photos imported perfectly using iPhoto, and were then perfect in Aperture.
After thinking some, I suspect the preview image is the problem (I wished I'd exported them as tiff to see, but it was yesterday and I deleted the dodgy imports).
I had some pictures (also .RW2) not in the library at all (I'd been using them to try out LR4). I drag/dropped them from a Finder-folder into Aperture,  (not import) by droppong them into the Inspector panael of Aperture; they were perfect BUT said they were RAW/JPG pairs which they were not.
Come on Apple. There was a time when your software was bug-free. Nostalga isn't enough.

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