Aperture Unable to process RAW files even though finder shows a preview

I have recently upgraded to Aperture 3.0 which decided to delete my library. Using PhotoRec i am slowly recovering all of my files.
The files that have been recovered are .cr2 files and .jpg files. The jpegs display fine without a problem however every 2 out of 3 cr2 RAW files will not import into iPhoto, Aperture or pretty much any other RAW processing software. Aperture just says "Unsupported File Type".
My issue is that Finder is showing a preview of the image in the icon, and is showing a preview in CoverFlow, but everything refuses to open the file. This must surley mean that the data is still intact within the .cr2 file? else Finder would be unable to display the preview of the file?
Does anyone know how to fix this or what could be causing this issue?
Apple please, please fix this issue with Aperture, I fear that I have lost a lot of photos in this process.
Please help!

Aarthek - the Canon PowerShot G2 is not supported centrally on your Mac.
http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs/raw.html
I've just finished importing my old archive produced by this camera. What I did was to produce fresh JPEGs (medium quality, so low file size) in the same directory as the original RAW images. I happen to have Photoshop CS3 and could easily do these in batches, but worst case, you should still have Canon's ImageBrowser suite which could do this. I then imported the JPGs for cataloguing, keywording, etc. Then, if I want to do some serious work on an image from my G2, I'll right-click the image and select +Show in Finder+ and get straight to my corresponding RAW image which I can then process in Photoshop.
but I don't understand why the thumbnail shows up when I'm importing as though there are no issues.
There's a small embedded JPG in the RAW files and that's what you're seeing. I think that's also what you saw on the G2's display when you were out shooting and stopped to review an image in the field.
Regards,
Gary

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