Grey previews & grey thumbnails

I have used Aperture, to great effect, since it came out some two years ago. The other week, for no good reason my thumbnails went grey; the preview only showed whilst loading then goes grey.
Images do not export to Mail.
The images all open in Photoshop, no probs.
I have deleted all Aperture files I can find, in user, user/library, hdd/library/app-support, .../library/receipts, etc, etc. Emptied trash, re-booted and re-installed Aperture.
I have visited the Genius Bar (I'll comment no further on that experience - guess I'd have been OK if it was an iPod problem). I have again removed all Aperture files I can find and again reinstalled. In an empty Aperture I imported one new, fresh image. Thumbnail and preview went grey.
I'd really appreciate some pointers on this one. I guess the Adobe Lightroom will do the trick?

This problem occurred for me last night for the fist time. App 2.01 gave me problems re. thumbnailing but not 2.1.
Ap began generating a project's thumbs on its own (1000 pix, all previously generated), while no-one was using it. Selecting pix led to the grey screen, and any scroll led to all thumbs being regenerated. Took about a hour to sort out: after rebuilding lib I switched to viewer plus browser mode, and Ap recovered its dignity after a few minutes.
However....
Earlier in the day out in the field I backed up those same pix from card to laptop (which does not use Ap) and checked a couple using Preview. Grey screens appeared there too, and never have before, and the pix were mighty slow to display.
So am wondering if this is an occasional issue with the way NEFs are sometimes written or downloaded, or the time at which an uploading device is disconnected. Are others with this prob also using Nikon? Or downloading direct from camera instead of into a finder folder first?
best
Paul

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