Aperture is Over Exposing All My RAW Files- H E L P

Whenever I open an existing project I have run into Aperture taking perfectly exposed shots and suddenly after loading they are over exposed to the point they are un-viewable. Theses are images that I have had for some time and this has never happened. Even when I download to my MacBook they are imported first with all the correct detail then once fully loaded they become over exposed. As far as details, all images where shot with a Sony a700, I'm using Aperture 2.1.1 on a MacBook running OS X 10.5.5. I have notice that this only affects my RAW images and not JPG. I recently uploaded the disc for the Apple Pro Training Series Aperture 2. I need help I don't want to ruin any more images. I will not be using Aperture until this problem is resolved. I have put too much time and effort into my remaining images to see all my work go away. Anyone (or anyone at Apple) who can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Al

There is probably the known bug introduced in DCRCU 2.2
See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1713679&tstart=0
Delete the file: System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle then (re)install the previous version.
Get the previous version here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/digitalcamerarawcompatibilityupdate21.htm l

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