Incorrect time on imports from iPhoto

I am trying to understand Aperture before importing my iPhoto library with some 44,000 photos. In importing a few Events using Aperture's iPhoto Browser, all the photos show up with the wrong time, generally four hours before the time shown in iPhoto. This happens with images taken with three different cameras as well as for scanned images. I have read online that others have had this and similar problems. I have no preset modifications in the Aperture import dialogue.
In looking at the images in Aperture's iPhoto Browser, the times given underneath each image are wrong - but within iPhoto they are correct. When I drag these images into Aperture from the iPhoto Browser, the times are wrong but keywords and ratings transfer correctly.
According to Aperture's metadata, both the EXIF date and the IPTC date created are wrong. The dates are correct when viewed in the application EXIF viewer.
When I drag the same images into Aperture directly from iPhoto, the times are correct - but the images do not have keywords or ratings. (Also, RAW images are dragged in as jpegs, which makes sense.)
When I drag images from iPhoto onto the Desktop and then drag into Aperture, the times are okay but these also do not have keywords etc.
The problem occurs for both referenced and managed images. Images buried within the Aperture application package show the correct time in EXIF viewer.
Has anyone come up with a firm solution to this problem other than manually changing the times for every file?

I've experienced something similar, but it is related to time zone changes (and how the systems handles it).
In my case the picture was taken at e.g. 1am. in Las Vegas (Mountain daylight saving time). Back to Germany, time was 9am. Upon reimport of picture into a different catalog the metadata time was set back to 1am. Looking into it, if an exif time is written to a sidecar file, a correction for time zone is written as difference to the exif time (+-0h seems to be eastern US time...).
So there seems to be an error in handling EXIF Times written to the database while changing time zones.
System: WinXP, Minolta raw and xmp sidecar files.
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