Double Exposure RAW Files Poorly Processed

I have an Olympus OMD-EM5. I'm shooting double exposures and when I import the RAW files into Aperture, once the Aperture preview is generated the picture becomes horribly over processed. Saturation seems maxed out on things like leaves, but also colors shift: a pale blue flower turns deep purple. I tried shooting RAW + JPEGs and the JPEGs of course look fine in Aperture as they do in camera and are not reprocessed in any apparent way. So the glitch seems to be in processing RAW double exposures.
Is anyone else working with double exposures seeing the same problem with their RAW files? Any ideas and what is happening?
Thanks

atnbirdie wrote:
The camera manual says "a RAW image recorded on a card can be overlaid with multiple exposures and stored as a separate image.
It might be -- iirc, this is how Canon does it -- that the resulting "separate image" is a JPG (or can be viewed correctly only as a JPG).

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Why are you shooting Raw?
In order to obtain the highest quality images my D700 is capable of producing.
When a camera takes a shot a Raw is generated, this Raw is processed by the camera into a Jpeg and that's goes onto your computer.
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No. The thumbnail is different again. Usually, it's actually a thumb copied from the one created by the camera and stored in the Raw file.
To see the Preview drag the shot to the Desktop from the iPhoto Window - that's it. Open it in Preview and compare that with the Jpeg version from the camera - just visually, not file sizes etc. (I'll come to that later on.)
I do all of my editing in Photoshop Elements, so in order to convert this RAW file I right clicked on the thumbnail and selected “Edit in External Editor” whereupon the RAW file opened up in Adobe Camera Raw.
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Yes, I selected "Use RAW when using external editor."
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Put it this way: I'd be 99% sure that the iPhoto preview will be good enough for sharing by email or online. It may also be perfectly good enough for printing too - but if it's not that's when you export to the quality you prefer.
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