Corrupted Aperture Library - Any way to recover original RAW files?

Hi all - as a user since the initial release of Aperture, I'm afraid I've run into my first show-stopper of a problem with Aperture 2.01. At some point (and I can't seem to see where) about 15 projects in my library have become corrupted, where I have only blank grey thumbnails for each image. Clicking on any image gives me a lighter grey image in the viewer window.
Even worse - if I select an image and try the view Master command (M), I get a lovely "Invalid Image Format" in red. I understood that the RAW files were stored inside of the aperture library file and was fairly confident that even in the worst-case I would just lose my meta data and edits.
I've exported out the projects that were still intact into seperate project files which I'll re-import after a fresh install of aperture (once I get past my emergency status)
Seems I was wrong. Restoring from my last few Vault backups (up to a month ago) has not resolved anything (or the corruption occurred far earlier).
Any assistance in recovery strategies is greatly appreciated. Otherwise I'll end up walking away from a good set of 10,000+ shots. (my current library is around 55k images)
Is there someone I can contact at Apple Support directly for assistance?!?
Thanks in advance,
Ted

Thank you kindly for the suggestions - the Show Packages option did not show any of the affected projects (in fact even the folders were missing).
Sadly also my vault copies where also missing. It would seem that somewhere along the line the files themselves were deleted from the drive without updating the Aperture library.
It looks like I'll have to suck it up this time - as I haven't been able to identify any recoverable archives - all my vaults see to be empty or suffering the same missing images syndrome. I've found a few very old copies of a portion of past shoots, but the bulk are gone. Needless to say I'm not very happy atm.
Me thinks I'll have to be more diligent about burning and DVD of each shoot immediately after I import them into Aperture going forward.
My next question is how can I guarantee a fresh re-install of Aperture? Is simply deleting icon from my Applications folder sufficient?
Thanks again for your suggestions!

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