Images suddenly all wonky

I have a sudden problem. When I launched Aperture this morning I could not get most images to finish loading. Images that were exported and modified in PS would display fine. Images that were in Aperture generally do not finish loading. When they do, they are presented as skewed and bitmapped on both screens. This happens with versions and masters. I have run the consistency check, started with shift key down and rebuilt the database with no change. Confirmed library selection with option start. Ap worked fine yesterday...wondering if this is a problem anyone else has encountered. Screen shot of displays with unresolved image can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/ycxx9xs
TIA for any suggestions offered.
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Aperture 2.1.4 MacPro3,1 dual quad 18gb ram dual 23" displays

I just wanted to share the fact that I had a similar issue.
After doing all the steps recommended for troubleshooting Aperture, I still had the same issue. Whenever I exported pictures, they came out the same messed up way. When I tried to import, it only displayed the newly imported ones at 160x120 resolution. The issue spread beyond Aperture, as Image viewer and iphoto also did the same messed up pictures. I booted off an external install I had of OSX, and the pictures looked fine.
I solved my problem by running the Snow Leopard install. I did not re-format. I simply ran the install as if I was doing an upgrade.

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I encountered the known issue with white spots on the image when using the 2-second timer for long exposures. I read about how the Pentax firmware update 1.01 changed the EXIF Make information, causing Aperture to be unable to read the K20D PEF RAWs. So I waited.
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1) Tested a fresh install of 10.5.4 on another HD in the Mac Pro. Installed Aperture 2.1, updated to 2.1.1. This should be perfectly clean. It gives the "Unsupported Image Format" error with any new images from my K20D. Copying the library from my other partition gives the same problems as described earlier.
2) Tested a fresh install of 10.5.3 on another partition in a Macbook Pro. Installed Aperture 2.1, updated to 2.1.1. Applied the Apple RAW update and iLife enhancements. It gives the same errors as before.
3) Tested a fresh install of 10.4.11 on another partition in a Macbook Pro. Installed Aperture 2.1, updated to 2.1.1. This worked perfectly for all PEFs and DNGs.
4) Took a month-old backup (from when everything was working just fine) of my Aperture Library and loaded it into all of the above configurations. Same results!
So what is the deal here? Aperture all of a sudden can't read images that it itself was able to edit a month ago? How come it works just fine in 10.4.11? This seems really messy. I have essentially lost a lot of the work I've put in.
I can use DNGs moving forward, but my past work is now messed up, and the DNGs are almost 75% bigger than the PEFs!
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