Importing monochrome images (again)

I am frustrated by Aperture not respecting the B&W "adjustments" in images I have taken with my X100 simulating black and white using filters. We all know that the full colour information is there but surely, if Aperture is capable of talking to the Fuji RAW format it would be able to allow the option, at least, to keep what has been selected in the field. It is all very well saying one can apply the same adjustments in Aperture and that throwing away colour information may be rash but, if I have been carefully composing the right balance on the camera, which is what I want when I have the finished print and Aperture is not letting me do this. Most of the images I have taken in the last two days, using B&W+R settings are unusable as when I reapply the B&W+R in Aperture I get severely corrupted dark greys and blacks. In other cases they work but do not look quite the same. I am wondering if there is a transitional process I can put the images through before importing them to Aperture 3, to fix them as the camera filtered the file? I have tried opening in other applications and they all ignore the camera processing. With assembled panoramas these also always appear in colour in the final form but that is probably complicating matters further!
Drew
Fuji X100 / Aperture 3 / Mac Pro 2.66 quad / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.6.8

All the points made are well taken. I prefer to maximize quality and not use a lossy format for some images and so, if your choice is JPEG or RAW you seem to be obliged to accept that a quasi RAW process is necessary. Certainly FUJI are content to let you do selective processing of RAW images in camera. So in theory yes there is a disconnect but, it would seem, by design ( a bit more like screening rather than manipulation ).
The main point though is what Aperture does to the images when applying the B&W+R preset, with corruption of the dark tonal margins on images which look fine in the camera and which look good in the Finder. It is difficult to portray without photo examples but it is not unlike pixellated blocky margins with no gradation.
Thanks Léonie and others for responding - Drew

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