Aperture consistently freezing on import

So here's the situation: I am using Aperture 2.1 on a 17" MacBook Pro (2.33 C2D, 2GB) and it ALWAYS freezes while importing large folders from external FW HDs. The folders being imported may have anywhere from 2000 to 5000 or more photos organized in various subfolders but it always freezes when it reaches the range of 1180 to 1220 photos. I've tried not allowing the system to sleep and it still does this and doesn't seem to be dependent on the brand of HD (using Lacie and OWC drives). If you import the folders in small chunks it does fine but this is very tedious & time consuming. I also use Lightroom and it imports the exact same folders just fine, but I generally prefer the results from Aperture. Is anyone else having this problem and found a solution?

Did you ever have any luck solving this issue? I'm having the same thing happen on an iMac 2.16 GHz with 3GB of ram, importing from OWC drives over firewire 800. I've had freeze issues where drives seem to get "lazy" and spin down, even when they shouldn't. A double-click on the drive in the finder spins it back up and then things continue. But, that didn't work on this new Aperture problem that I just started having when I tried importing large folders.

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