Disaster of (almost) Biblical proportions -at least for me- restoring vault

I had my RAID drive, which contains both my Aperture library and my images, ©®@p out on me this past weekend. My library is almost all referenced to the files on this RAID drive. Some files, like the TIFF that were created by Aperture for me to edit, were stored in the Aperture library as I had not gotten the chance to move them out via "Manage Referenced Files." Of course, I had a vault or two set up, although they were only slightly out of date from the crash.
So, first thing I did was to, after I recreated my RAID drive and copied all the images back on, is to try to reconnect all my images. This is turning into one giant PITA. It seems that Aperture will only reconnect the visible images in the browser and not any images that are stacked underneath them. Is that correct? I don't understand why wit would not just reconnect all the images, whether they are stacked or not. This is a big problem.
Also, Aperture only seems to be recreating the thumbnails of those images that are visible in the browser. Why isn't there a feature that will let me recreate ALL thumbnails by choosing an option, like creating previews?
And, when I chose to reconnect one TIFF file, Aperture was telling me that the file was one size (say, 70mb at a certain res) and that when I chose the EXACT image to reconnect to (which was indeed a larger TIFF file at nearly 300 mbs and a larger resolution), Aperture would not let me reconnect. It seems somewhat obvious that Aperture would not let me reconnect it because of the discrepancy in the file stats, but the image I wanted to reconnect to WAS the correct image. It was a TIFF file that I had edited in Photoshop and saved back as a much larger file. I don't understand what is happening here. I know that it the file. Aperture is even telling me that that is the file by showing me the path to the original file which I exactly duplicated with the images recopied on the new drive. Yet it is still giving me different metadata from the file and won't let me reconnect. Ouch! Any thoughts? How do I reconnect this image?
You know, I found that the vault restore is working okay, but the loss of all the thumbnails put a serious kink into this restoration. If there was an option to keep the thumbnails and/or previews in the vault, that would go a long way to speeding up recovery. The other option I have, in the future, is just to sync the Aperture library to a backup copy using Chronosync.
Anyway, if anyone can help me with this reconnection issue, I'd really appreciate it.
Antonio
P.S., My RAID failed, or rather had severe problems, after I installed the 10.4.9 update. I don't know if there is a direct connection, but be careful updating . And don't do it when you are working on a job.

I don't know if this is going to be of any use. I tried a number of expiriments related to rconnection of external masters...
At first I had trouble reproducing your issue, because Aperture follows masters as you move them around the HD. Then I simply archived it.
Then I added a different TIFF file into that directory, and tried to re-link - no luck, as it was different.
Now the interesting thing. I quit Aperture and renamed the different TIFF to the same name as my original master image. Now all of the sudden Aperture thought it was the original master image, even though it was quite different.
So I have two things for you to try, based on my expiriments:
1) Open up "manage referenced files" dialog holding down Option. Now select the file you want to re-link. Now click on Hide Reconnect Options. Now click on Done.
The Option may do nothing. However using that process, it seemed to take my selected change even though I could not click on the "reconnect" button.
2) This may be a part of what I did - try renaming your master TIF file to something slightly different. Now try naming it back and re-linking, either as normal or above, and see if it takes. If that works you could batch-rename the TIFF files and name them back.
I hope something there works for you.

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