Aperture and greyscale tif scans

Hi,
I scanned my old black&white pics and manage them in Aperture. But when I want to use the repair tool Aperture turns my pic into a B&W negativ. I use Aperture 2.1. Does anybody has an ideas what is going on? Is it a bug?

Yes they are greyscale. But it just happen to the Tif I get from the Canon Scan software. Which is still PPC-version. Open the faulty image in Photoshop and save it as Tif again and the problem is gone. So I don't know exactly what is wrong. Theoretically Aperture should not have this problem.
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