HELP! Aperture corrupting my library when relocating masters

I keep my aperture library on my system disk, and I use referenced masters on a NAS. Everything seems to have been working fine until now. I had a rather large project that I was cleaning up, wanting to delete my no longer needed masters (about 2200 out of 3500 files). Unfortunately, I forgot to check the box to delete referenced masters - I didn't even realize it was there until I went searching when it didn't delete them. Anyway, what I thought I would do is simply relocate the masters from by project to a new project, then I could delete the masters left behind.
What happened was that Aperture started moving masters from other projects into the new project - Files that were not selected in Aperture when I executed the relocate masters command. Now these other projects have lots of images with "unsupported image format", I'm assuming for the masters that got moved into this new project. What happened?

I've attempted to fix this by restoring the JPEG files that I had originally "removed". This did not seem to resolve the problem as when exporting the masters I still find many, many files from other projects being exported as part of this project.
Granted, I brought this problem on myself by deleting the JPEGs, however this seems like a pretty serious defect in Aperture. I could understand if after deleting a JPEG Aperture could not locate the JPEG master and displayed some sort of indicator of such. However there is no indication that anything is wrong, it's just picking up random files in place of the JPEGs, and in those other projects, the images are "unsupported file format" with the filename showing some sort of metadata in an iPhoto library on the same disk.
I have a vault that probably has the database from these other projects intact. Is there a way to restore that information? (remember that all the masters are relocated).
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer to help fix this.
- Howie

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