Data and Images in Aperture are a mess

I just bought and started using Aperture, as I was hoping to get a better way to organize my images vs. iPhoto. However, I'm not sure what is happening in Aperture, but everything is out of whack. For example:
1) Aperture is not sorting the images correctly by date (see iPhoto vs. Aperture) (not sure what its doing actually)
Order in iPhoto (correct): https://www.evernote.com/shard/s15/sh/8c59344a-ad63-46f5-8a88-010016374bfa/75c42 3a7f3ee54dfec6e89f7c72c0f23
Order in Aperture (not correct): https://www.evernote.com/shard/s15/sh/81c58b92-1307-4932-b224-b652966ea60a/74d37 ba969f0897719c48a7826f0e30a
2) Aperture is showing the wrong images for various photos. Note: Clearly these photos are broken, stretched, just plain wrong
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s15/sh/81c58b92-1307-4932-b224-b652966ea60a/74d37 ba969f0897719c48a7826f0e30a
3) Aperture is showing a different photo when the thumbnail is clicked
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s15/sh/8205f754-1c20-48b7-a2ac-e1967563b0d3/374e4 0a22028e21b78adae7f9e794d68
Note: This is the first photo shown in iPhoto, and is the correct photo in iPhoto, but its not in Aperture per the Thumbnail.
4) Aperture is showing the wrong date information
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s15/sh/c1ca65a4-7276-4734-b3a2-51fd803df86b/a2bd7 61f93844b38fcae0a4243eb4e39
Basically, nothing in Aperture is showing correctly. How can that be possible? Any suggestions?

What is your Aperture version? If you just bought it, it will probably be Aperture 3.5.1, but then your profile signature " Mac OS X (10.5.6)" could not be right?
Looking at the examples you posted, it looks to me, like Aperture's sorting by date is correct - at least the images are ordered by the numbers in the file names, and that strongly suggests, that the capture time in the exif tags is in that order. I don't know any camera that would name the image files with sequence numbers other than ordered by capture time. Then iPhotos order would be out of sequence with respect to the capture time. Or have you adjusted the "Dare & Time" in iphoto to deviate from the capture times? How did you transfer the photos from iPhoto to Aperture?
Regards
Léonie
If the thumbnails do not correspond to the actual image files, then rebuild the thumbnails of your photos in that project. Select all images in Aperture in the Browser, go to the "Photos" menu in the main menu bar, and use the command "generate Thumbnails".
After that, you should be better able to judge the ordering of the photos from the thumbnails in the browser.
If receating the thumbnails does not suffice, repair your Aperture libry, and if necessary, rebuild it.
Hold down the ⌥⌘-keys while launching Aperture, and keep holding them firmly, until you see the Aperture Library First Aid panel. Select "repair database"

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