Importing without filename extensions?

I need to import files that do not have filename extensions.
Please don't tell me "Get with the modern world!" or "Just rename them!" or some such. This is an archive of some 200 rolls of film scans burned to DVD. They are NOT going to get renamed! Portfolio deals with this just fine.
But I really would rather use Aperture. I just need a push in the right direction to hack some .plist or something to get it to import extension-less files. There's gotta be a way...
Help!

But type and creator codes are currently supported! As far as I can tell, they have not been officially deprecated. If you know differently, I'd appreciate a reference. (The only thing I've seen is a "suggestion" that they be avoided, as they might not be supported in the future by some applications.)
As far as I can tell, it's not "legacy," either. It's a supported part of the file system. When you select a JPEG in the Finder, do "Get Info," and set it to open in Photoshop, then select a different JPEG, and set it to open in Preview, you're setting the creator code. MacOS X has no "registry" like Windows (thank god!) to track such stuff, and I consider it a strong feature of MacOS X that you can open files of the same type with different applications by default.
I'm not sympathetic to arguments that something might happen in the future, so I should go to a lot of extra trouble to deal with someone who's jumping the gun now.
I have hundreds of client CD-ROMs that I may have to re-burn if this is the case. If that's so, I'll stick with Portfolio, which is doing an adequate job. No one is going to pay me for tens of hours spent examining, copying, renaming, and re-burning. Aperture is supposed to improve my productivity, so I spend less time behind the Finder and more time behind the viewfinder!

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