Aperture reporting external volume offline

I have imported approx 11,000 images as referenced masters. The images are stored on an external firewire drive. Aperture is unable to locate the master images and is reporting that the drive is offline. Finder sees the drive just fine.
I have manually reconnected several projects, but this seems liek a pain since I have 15 projects. Is there anyway reconnect all images in all projects? Is there any explanation why aperture loses the ability to connect an external volume?
If aperture cannot keep track of external volumes properly, I think I have wasted my money.

Why should my aperture library be on the external disk? Won't this prevent me from being able to browse images, add keywords, set ratings, etc. when the external disk is offline?
I have relinked each of the projects, but now I am seeing another problem. I originally created the projects by importing folders as projects. Most of the folders that I imported contained subfolders. Several of the top-level folders contain folders with the same name, e.g.
Photos archived 2-2006
Brandon
Sonia
etc.
Photos archived 10-2006
Brandon
Sonia
etc.
After relinking the projects, some images now show up in the wrong project. For example, file001.jpg is on the file system in "Photos archived 2-2006/Brandon" but shows up in the project "Photos archived 10-2006".
I'm not sure if it is the external volume or the fact that I used to import folders and projects option, but Aperture does not seem stable.

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