Dark Previews in 1.5 !!

Help! I've upgraded to 1.5 and now all image previews are way too dark. All thumbnails look normal but image previews – any larger image views – are dark! Images print too dark as well -- what's going on!

This IS different than 1.1.2... in previous version same previews were fine - prints fine - 1.5 they're dark. No change in between to the files - same files in Lightroom are fine. Same files open into Photoshop fine. Its only Aperture 1.5 that is having a problem.
I tried re-importing the files... same thing! Thumbnails look normal but larger previews are dark.

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