Aperture thinks "Images Offline"

After installing Leopard and a second hard drive, Aperture thinks some of my projects are "Offline".
I did not rename, or edit my reference files outside of Aperture. The only thing that has changed was adding a second hard drive and installing Leopard. Before installing Leopard, I did use SuperDuper to clone my drive, and did a clean install of Leopard. But, the reference files and Aperture library were copied back to the original drive.
I have reconnected the masters through "Manage Reference Files", and everything seems to work fine. Restarted the computer and the files show "Online". Once I import new files into Aperture, the projects that I had fixed and reconnected, go back to "Offline".
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Chris

Found a faster way. Just went to manage referenced files and told Ap to reconnect the files on the "off-line" boot drive to the ones on the (actual) on-line boot drive--the same drive. It did it, and seems to remember.

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