Canon 5D Mk2 arrived, but Aperture 2 says 'unsupported file'

I'm really delighted with my Canon 5D Mk2, but less so that Aperture 2 doesn't recognise my RAW files.Yikes!
As a working photographer, how can I work round this, and how long will it be until I see an update to allow me to use this camera?
Will Aperture automatically see the update when it comes, because I can't find a 'Check for Updates' button.
Thanks in advance.

When you use the DNG conversion, you are essentially turning your RAW file into a TIFF on steroids. Aperture recognizes the image file as such and only makes available the settings/adjustments that are available for TIFF/PSD images.
This is a very bastardized explanation: Basically, the DNG has a higher bit depth than traditionally the TIFF/PSD has as well as the fact that has a lossless compression. The Adobe DNG converter takes a RAW file, and converts it to a high class TIFF with special privileges so to speak.
You are right, there is an extra step added to workflow when converting to Adobe DNG but it is rather painless I think. Yes, it does take some extra time but, you are able to use files from a camera that isn't yet supported natively. A pretty good trade off I think.
[Note: I rarely upgrade my camera systems until Aperture supports them natively given I depend on Aperture for my workflow. My feeling, even if the new camera is really rad, it isn't going to be useful if I can't continue with the post processing, thus making a living.] If I'm forced to use the DNG converter I will download all the unsupported Aperture files to a folder, make a backup copy of the originals, then run the unsupported Aperture files through the DNG supporter and go to lunch or go to bed. When I get back, I simply import the DNG files into Aperture and I'm good to go.
Hope this helps.
CD

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