Did library's change between 10.5 and snow leopard...?

So my HD died, i had the drive restored by a company, they saved everything thank god...(not having done a back up for 3 months was a bad idea!!!)
but it was running snow leopard
when they installed my new HD, they installed 10.5 and my aperture library's are just not loading up all...im getting broken images, random ones do show up, others are visible but have yellow triangle warning
and i'm thinking the main problem might be that snow leopard was writing the directories a little bit different?
can that be it?

That seems to be file corruption. I don't believe that Snow Leopard changed the library.
You can check the affected files through the finder by going into the library and trying to find the files there, then see if they open in photoshop/preview for instance.

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