Garbled images - Aperture 2 + Leopard

Hi,
I'm using 1dsIII raws on my iMac and they are appearing all garbled. Bits of the images are showing in weird spots in the viewer, in other spots are green oversized pixels and pink lines. Most obvious as soon as I crop or when using the loupe... once I crop, the image only appears in teh viewer in its garbled form.
Same files work fine on my mbp with less RAM and an inferior graphics card.
Images below show what I mean.
http://www.sheerimage.com.au/aperturescreenshot1.png
http://www.sheerimage.com.au/aperturescreenshot2.png
Any help???
Dave

Hi,
If it is of any help:
I have experienced a similar issue, but then limited to ZOOM or Loupe usage.
It happens so far with 1ds MK3 files with Aperture 2 and a 2008 MacPro with 1.5.2 and all upgrades installed, standard Video Card and plenty of RAM. The very same files work fine using a QUAD G5 and also latest OSX 1.5.2 with all updates.
On the MacPro I seem to get similar issues with iphoto when zooming to 100 Percent. For a short time I suspected a card reader issue. But then I copied the files from card to desktop and imported into Aperture, Lightroom etc. LightRoom and Lightzone can process these files without any issues.
I would appreciate some advice as well. Should I try and contact Apple support? Does that help in any way?
Thanks
Stefan

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