Library upgraded, masters reprocessed, now, blank screen within Aperture

So I thought i was one of the lucky few who was able to figure out what was going on with my AP3 upgrade..i even got a few good days use out of one of my libraries..so i figured it was time to upgrade my larger library (50gb library file, over 70,000 images). Upgrading was a breeze..no problems there. I did not select reprocess masters at the time of upgrade, so now came time for the reprocessing. I let it run overnight. Watched it the first few hours, looked like it was making progress. Went to bed. Woke up the next morning, it was still showing as reprocessing, but it was clear that it no longer was. Memory/sytem usage had ballooned (aperture was showing as using 3.5gb of real memory, 5gb of virtual)..only way out was a force quit. upon restart, activity window came up (as opposed to the reprocessing bar at the top of the screen)..showed 22,000 files still processing. I let it run all day today, about 6 hours before it completed. Afterwards Nothing.no thumbnails. just empty boxes. when i go into a project, they all look empty even though the projects show the number of images they 'should' contain. Library rebuild, permissions repair, nothing has worked.
now i'm scared. furthermore, i did a clean install last week because i thought that might solve my aperture 3 problems (this was prior to tons of reports of other users experiencing the same issues as me). Now I am having trouble accessing the backup copy of this library because time machine is telling me I don't have permission to access it. I pray a patch is coming..soon. This is very very bad.

Do you still have your Ap 2 Install disk? Do you still have a back-up copy of your Ap 2 library? If so, I'd re-install Ap 2 and select the back-up library as the library to use.
Now, run the Consistency Check and Rebuild the library. Boot Ap 2 while holding down the Command and Option keys. You'd get the window asking if you want to run the Check and Rebuild procedures. Choose the Check. When Ap 2 re-opens, Quit it. Reboot with the Command and Option keys again. Now run the Rebuild.
If all is OK, create another back-up of this Rebuilt Ap 2 library.
Now re-install Ap 3 and follow the procedure I described in my post, explaining what I did to get a very successful upgrade to Ap 3.
See
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11094224#11094224
Good luck!

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