Aperture Library accessed once a second, non-stop?

Sat down to my iMac this morning and, within seconds of waking up, I noticed that the hard drive was being accessed once a second, non-stop. After 5-10 minutes, it started getting annoying, so I did some digging in Terminal. It appears a java process is hitting my Aperture library non-stop. Killing the process leads to some quiet, but the system relaunches the process and I'm right back to where I started. Anyone have any idea what's going on? My internet connection is seeing fairly consistent use at about 50 KB/s, which could be related. I do, however, have Photo Library turned off.

Constant entries such as the following when I check file system usage (e.g. sudo fs_usage -w -f "filesys").
09:35:11.032847  getattrlist                            /Users/xxx/Pictures/Aperture/Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary/Database/Versions/2010/02/14/20100214-170149/NibiNOTbQbmtXcZK cDsx5A/Master.apmaster                     0.000011   java.2096958
09:35:11.032916  getattrlist                            /Users/xxx/Pictures/Aperture/Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary/Database/Versions/2010/02/14/20100214-170149/NibiNOTbQbmtXcZK cDsx5A/Master.apmaster                     0.000012   java.2096958
09:35:11.032970  pwrite            F=93   B=0x1a       O=0x06ac2304                                                                                                                                                             0.000006   java.2096959
09:35:11.033137  lstat                                  /Users/xxx/Pictures/Aperture/Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary/Database/Versions/2010/02/14/20100214-170149/NibiNOTbQbmtXcZK cDsx5A/Master.apmaster                     0.000008   java.2096958
09:35:11.033267  listxattr                              /Users/xxx/Pictures/Aperture/Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary/Database/Versions/2010/02/14/20100214-170149/NibiNOTbQbmtXcZK cDsx5A/Master.apmaster                     0.000008   java.2096958
09:35:11.033302  stat_extended64                        /Users/xxx/Pictures/Aperture/Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary/Database/Versions/2010/02/14/20100214-170149/NibiNOTbQbmtXcZK cDsx5A/Master.apmaster                     0.000007   java.2096958
There's a little bit of mds activity scattered throughout the log, but not enough to explain the constant accessing. I'm rebuilding the library right now to see if that has any effect. Malware is highly unlikely (I run a pretty tight ship), but I won't rule it out.

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