Aperture is destroying my library and wrecking my photos

I just rebuilt my library and still:
the thumbnail visuals in preview aren't the same visual once you click on them and see them in preview (they are an altogether different visual (from the same project but all the same completely different)). and when I export the visual that I've clicked in thumbnail, the visual that is exported is the one that I see in preview. not the visual that I see as a thumbnail. so I have no idea what has happened to my shots and what is missing.
various shots that I exported as part of a project so I could give them to apple's developers are now showing up as not being linked to their masters. and what's really weird is that not all the visuals are showing up as unlinked. only some. and when I try to relink aperture says that the shots cannot be found.
finally, some of my shots have have gotten randomnly squished (apertures has taken verticals and turned them into extreme horizontals and vice versa).
I have sent the last two problems on to apple's developers but I haven't heard anything back after a flurry of activity. now nothing.
and now I just ran into this new problem.
am just about to give up on this application after being very excited about it originally. right now it seems to be the absolute worst application in the world.
iphoto for all it's issues never did this to me.
any ideas?
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Back up your Aperture Library as a precaution then try the following:
Go to your Pictures folder and find the Aperture Library there
Right Click on it and go Show Package Contents
Find the affected project - something.approject - and rightr click on it. Inside the project you'll find three files:
AP.Minis
AP.Thumbnails
AP.Tinies
Trash the three. Restart Aperture and that will force it to regenerate the thumbnails.
Regards
TD

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