Aperture Preview Generation Error

Hi folks,
I've a couple of images and a movie that are queued up for preview generation, however when Aperture 3.4.3 reaches them it stops responding, I get the colour wheel, and my CPU goes into overdrive. I have to force quit Aperture.
I've been getting round this by simply holding shift to stop preview generation starting automatically when launching Aperture. But its not a solution, and I need to get it fixed.
I've removed the offending files from the Aperture Library manually and relocated them for now. Other applications seem to be able to view them without problem.
The problem is Aperture still thinks the images are present in the library (though marked as missing) and trys to generate preview still. I've tried to delete them through Aperture, but the moment I select them Aperture stops respondning again, and I have to force quit again.
I've repair the permissions for the Library, rebuilt/ repaired the database. but I still have the same problem.
My HDD has a clean bill of health, ran disk util to verify and fix permissions etc.
Any ideas how I get rid of these problem files?

I can open Aperture using the Shift key, everything works fine. Preview generation does not start. This is how I've been managing to use Aperture recently.
It's when I start normally, the previews start generating within 15 secs. Then Aperture freezes.
I've unticked Maintain Previews for both Projects (top level) and the projects that the problem images reside in.
When I tried to manually remove the images, I located them within the Previews, Thumbnails and Masters folder using Spotlight and moved them to my desktop. I made a note of where they came from and have replaced them.
However the issue I'm having remains unchanged, both before removing, after removing, and replacing them. As I understand it the thumbnails and previews are generated on request, and as such are temporary files anyway.
I've read articles mentioning deleting these folders entirely to resolve other issues, but I don't want a 15 hr preview marathon only to get stuck on the same images. Might be worth a shot if I can't find another solution though.
What I have realised though, is that these images are referenced from my old iPhoto Library before I jumped on board Aperture, wonder if I can delete from iPhoto instead of Aperture? I'll report back.

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