Aperture squishing & stretching photos

I recently bought Aperture, and in opening some of my older photos in the program, the photo gets squished to the left while the right side of the photo gets stretched. It only happens to some - at first i thought it was only those that I had edited in iPhoto, but no, some that I edited are fine when I open them. Now when I open up the "event" in iPhoto, the thumbnail displays the photos with the distortion but when I open it it displays normally. But in Aperture, both the thumbnail and the open photo are distorted the way I describe. Why is this happening, and can I reverse it/stop it?

Ian:
Thought I'd take your advice and run a new hardware test. Unfortunately, we recently moved and I can't find my original disks that came with the G5 (new 27 months ago) - they're in a box somewhere. Haven't had much luck on this site locating a version of Apple's Hardware Test that I can download. Also, hasn't the this test been updated since 2005? Should I use a more recent version (since I'm running Tiger instead of the version of OS X that came with the G5)?
Interested in any advice you may have on obtaining an appropriate copy of Apple's Hardware Test.
Thanks

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