Aperture lost masters

I restored my aperture from a vault couple days ago and everything else went fine but the masters that were in the local aperture library were missing. The relocated masters were just fine.
When I checked the library using finder the masters were there alright but for some reason aperture couldn't find them. Then I had to manually import every master back to the aperture and with lift & stamp tool move the metadata from the broken master to the new master and then delete the broken master.
Luckily I had just moved almost all of the images to an external drive so had only 100+ of them in the local library.
So, I have few questions: Has anyone else had this kind of a problem? That master is there but aperture doesn't recognize it? And is there any way to point where the master is if aperture has lost it?
All the updates etc are installed.
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I am beginning to think I ought to get the Apple team to do a "sticky" for me on this topic - it's the third time I've referenced it in a week...
If you've moved your library from one machine to another, or upgraded your Mac, or created a new user and are having problems running Aperture, or seeing masters/versions... the chances are that you have a permissions problem.
Here's a way to see if your library has been written-to by two different user-id's. You need to open Terminal, and change to the correct directory by typing (replace the /path/to/library with the correct location)...
cd /path/to/directory/containing/Aperture Library.aplibrary
(eg: I typed ... cd /Volumes/data/aperture)
then type in (or copy/paste the below
find . -exec ls -ln {} \; | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq
If you get back more than one number (I get '501'), then you have a permissions problem. Note that this can take a long long time to run. It might be best left running overnight if you have a gargantuan library. I assume that's why Apple don't do it at startup...
If you do get more than one number, then read through thread http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4384572#4384572, and follow the instructions to change the ownership of the files, you'll probably find your problems go away.
-=C=-

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