Bad iPhoto 11 to Aperture 3.1 import results

I've been using iPhoto for years and recently purchased Aperture 3. When I imported my iPhoto library, many of the images that I have meticulously adjusted in iPhoto came into Aperture tweeked way out. The adjustments have been greatly exaggerated in Aperture and now look terrible. I can "revert" to original and start over making those adjustments, but that's thousands of images.
Many images imported just fine. But many are pretty bad.
Has anyone else experienced this before? Am I doing something incorrectly, or is this a known problem with Aperture?

I have the same problem.  Used iPhoto for a couple of years, my library got so large it seemed to have trouble handling it, so moved to Aperture.  Transferring libraries seemed really simple, and all the albums, orders etc all tied up.  Now though I find like you that painstakingly adjusted photos edited in iPhoto look terrible in Aperture.  The master images are fine, but for some reason the iPhoto edited version is being shown completely differently.  Not sure what to do now - I'm not starting again in Aperture from the originals, and don't want to lose my album structure from iPhoto by exporting everything as jpegs from iPhoto.  Did you get an further with this issue?

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