Aperture Adds Strange Keywords

Hello,
I have imported about 20 iPhoto libraries into Aperture 3. Many of these have keywords assigned in iPhoto and they appear correctly as keywords in Aperture. Aperture adds other keywords such as iPhoto Original, etc. which I understand. However, there are cases in which Aperture has also added one of its Project titles to a photo's keyword list (these were not keywords in the iPhoto images). If I open the Aperture keyword list these are in it but they are not in the Filter HUD keyword list. What is going on here? I am wondering if the Aperture library is corrupted and I need to restore from the Vault backup which I think was made before I noticed this problem. The iPhoto libraries seem to work fine but could they be a problem (Aperture uses iPhoto Event titles as Project titles)?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Mike

Hello Leonie,
Thank you for your response.
Yes, I did mean Keyword HUD, sorry. If I examine the Keyword HUD and the Keyword Filter with all photos in the library selected, the oddball added keywords appear in the HUD but not the filter.
Thanks for the tip on hierarchical keyword categories. I tried that with Library Manager but when they were shared among all my libraries the structure I set up was lost. I plan to use this feature in Aperture once my library is complete.
However, the strange keyword question may be academic since I discovered after my post that I had the following warnings from Console which I interpret to mean serious problems with the library:
One Console Warning like this (last one on the list):
12/6/11 4:21:16 PM Aperture[1095] An instance 0x134a66970 of class RKVersion was deallocated while key value observers were still registered with it. Observation info was leaked, and may even become mistakenly attached to some other object. Set a breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop here in the debugger. Here's the current observation info:
<NSKeyValueObservationInfo 0x12b9ed890> (
<NSKeyValueObservance 0x13a0d7110: Observer: 0x13a0d72d0, Key path: isReadOnly, Options: <New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1399a9510>
<NSKeyValueObservance 0x13a0d94d0: Observer: 0x13a0d88e0, Key path: isReadOnly, Options: <New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1399a9510>
<NSKeyValueObservance 0x13a0da720: Observer: 0x13a0da8a0, Key path: isReadOnly, Options: <New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1399a9510>
Many Console Warnings like this (should have saved more of them):
12/6/11 1:41:32 PM ScreenSaverEngine[1132] Couldn't load image for path: /Volumes/OWC On-The-Go (SATA)/Aperture Library 11:30:11/Aperture Library1.aplibrary/Previews/2011/11/29/20111129-101150/kqu+Y3vXTLulk88738Y6ew/I MG_0517.JPG.jpg
I wonder if "mistakenly attached" has anything to do with my keyword problem. I found IMG_0517.JPG.jpg (is ".JPG.jpg" a valid extension?) and found 5 in Aperture, all of which ware taken at different places and different dates. The keywords were all OK. Four had the extension .JPG and one had no extension, just IMG_0517.
My plan now is to restore from my Vault copy and check for the odd keywords it it. If they are present I guess I will have to trash the library and start over.
Sorry for such a long post.
I welcome any observations on this.
Mike
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