Help! Library corruption after moving masters

Hi Guys. I hoped never to find myself in this situation.I'll try to be succint
I made a book using images from several projects. I put the book inside a new, empty project, and started working on it. 100 pages. days of work.
Today I wanted to be able to selfcontain the book in its project to export it. So I simply grabbed all the images from the browser section of the book (lamenting for an easy way to differentiate "used" images from "unused" images, but that's another story)
Aperture duly moved all masters in the project containing the book.
unfortunately, this is where the trouble starts! I'm now getting lots of images with the wrong data displayed: mixed up thumbnails, mixed up "previews" in the book layout. One Image uses pixels from image B in the book layout and from image C in the thumbnails... major corruption?
Of course the first thing I did was to rebuild the library, hoping for the best. It didn't cure anything.
I'd use Steve Weller's suggestion to delete the minis etc. but I prefer to have some feedback before i get going!
(you can be direct in your suggestions: i've got a 96,5% ACT certification for Aperture. not boasting just thinking the bases are well covered)
setup= MBpro as in signature. ApLib and referenced masters all in the same external HFS+ extended (journaled) drive (laCie LittleBigDisk 200).
cheers
max-pol

If you export a project and that project references masters that are in other projects, then Aperture makes copies of the masters in the exported project for you automatically. This is a nice feature, but can mean that when you import the project again you have duplicate images.
You can alays duplicate your messed up projects and then delete the AP.minis in one copy. If the result is even worse than what you have now, then you still have a pristine original project.

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