Aperture to [Original images | Lightroom]?

Just manged to delete the long version of this post so I'll keep it short:
- Aperture doesn't support my cameras RAW files.
- I have a copy of all my images in the filesystem external to Aperture's database. (my trust of db's not getting corrupt is low)
- All my metadata is stored in Apertures database.
I need to be able to get my metadata out of the database and back into the orginal files.
Is there a script that can do this based on image name? I.e., take the metadata from IMG_23456 in aperture and stick it into the file named IMG_23456? Or that can stick it into lightroom, again keyed by image name (since lightroom can use the original files this would work as well.)
Or, failing that, is it feasable to export each album from aperture to disc and have it keep all the meta data? I could then replace the originals with the exported versions. (Though doing that by hand for several hundred albums won't be fun, and I'll have to make sure not to accidently chuck any of my video clips since I don't (and can't) have those in aperture.)
Any other ways people can think of to get the metadata out of aperture?
Thanks for any help!
-eric

In the "folders" pane, right-click on the folder you see and select "show parent folder". Repeat as needed.

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