Importing star ratings from Canon's ImageBrowser

Does anyone know how to import star ratings assigned to photos
using Canon's ImageBrowser (5.8.0.10) software into Aperture?
I've tried importing a few photos with various ratings into Aperture 2.1 trial
but they appear unrated in Aperture. (Neither iPhoto nor Adobe Bridge
recognized the ratings either.)
I've done some investigation, comparing copies of the same image
with different star settings, and it appears ImageBrowser is recording
its rating in a 'WheR' resource in the resource fork of the image file.
Thanks

I started using ImageBrowser in 2001 (probably under OS 8.5), was underwhelmed with iPhoto's stability when it was introduced, so since I recently got a new Intel mac, I decided to investigate migrating my library of 20K photos to Aperture.

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