Colored bands on exported master files

I have been using Aperture mostly for selecting, cataloging and processing RAW files. I recently had the time to import my work from film sources. These files open and display fine in Photoshop. I imported these files into Aperture projects and added key words. These files are tif and psd files without layers and between 12 to 40Mo in size. They all display fine in Aperture. I have not made any adjustments on any of the files. They are all RGB.
When I export a version from them, there is no problem. However, when I export the master, I get colored bands on the masters, any where from one band to 10 or more. Not all the files have this problem. I deleted some of the problem files from Aperture, reimported and tried again. To no avail. I also tried exporting the same master several times and sometimes the banding is no longer present after these several tries, which seems very odd indeed.
After export from Aperture, I open the files in Photoshop where I see this banding. When opening in Photoshop, some files get an error message saying the file was damaged by a disk error. The same file opened in photoshop without having been first imported into Aperture does not get this error.
I looked at some problem files directly in the Aperture library by opening the package contents and those files open in Photoshop without any banding.
Here is a link to a sample of what I am getting:
http://homepage.mac.com/shiyinjia/Aperture/colorbands.jpg
I cannot say for sure whether this problem existed before the 10.4.6 came out. But some of the files exhibiting this problem were indeed imported prior to this update. I am running Aperture 1.01.
I have searched on this forum for posts of similar problems and didn't find any, but if there were, please be so kind as to direct me to them! Thanks for any insights you might have into this problem!
Jeff
Powerbook G4 12 inch 1.33, PowerMac G5 dual 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.6) X800 XT
Powerbook G4 12 inch 1.33, PowerMac G5 dual 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Ok here is what I've found out. I imported the original without the banding into Aperture, on export to master I got the banding. Then I thought ok, I'll copy and paste the image in photoshop into a new document, flatten it and save it as a PSD again. I imported that. Export as master on this file also gives banding but slightly different. Then I decided to apply a light gausian blur to the whole image in photoshop. Did this, saved it and imported and then exported in Aperture. It does not have the banding.
I'm not sure what this means other than you have a corrupt file. It could be you have a bad hard drive, or corrupt media that it was stored on (cds can deteriorate as well as external drives.) Anyway, somewhere something has corrupted this file (and maybe othere stored on the same media.)
So as stated before make sure you back up your entire main hard drive ASAP. Don't just back up your photos, back up everything thats important to you.
Back up any non-duplicated info on any external drive you have as well. Then boot your computer using the a Mac OS X install disk and check for hard drive errors. Check all your externals for errors too. If nothings shows up, Disk Warrior might not be a bad investment, just for the piece of mind. Also back up any cd/dvds you might have photos stored on by copying the contents to your hard drive and then burning a new cd because if you have DVDs or CDs that are faultering, they're only going to get worse as time goes on.
This does not necesarily mean you have a bad drive or disks, but chances are if this is happening with multiple files there probably is a problem with your storage and it's better be safe than sorry. If this has happened to one or two files, it could just be a case of a bad file, that had an error while be written to, or just got corrupted.
Good luck.

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