Map Rendering in Book

Hello,
I recently re-visisted a book that I made in Aperture and noticed that the map I had embedded in the book was being rendered "weird." The outlines of the coastlines and oceans were not drawn accurately and being filled in as jagged blue shapes.
I can best describe it by saying it looked like drawing a freeform filled polygon, in say Illustrator, but instead of returning to the start of the polygon to complete the shape, you randomly stop somewhere and the fill is applied in an unusual way.
I would attach a sample image but I'm not sure how.
This didn't happen before I upgraded to Aperture 3.1 and I'm not sure if it's a bug that others have experienced.
Would I have to re-create the book to fix this problem? Re-install Aperture?
Thanks.

There are apparently two potential problems. One with iphoto and one with the photo printing. In iphoto, depending on how many map entries, if you basically have a world map, centered on NorthAmerica, then Australia will be present, absent or duplicated depending on scale. Fixing it requires adding places and then deleting them.
Upon submission, the pdf is fine (and a pdf made afterwards is fine) but the pdf at the printing house is missing Australia. Their engineers think it is a memory issue or too many windows open upon submission. However, I have 4 GB ram and there were no additional windows open. Something is happening in the rendering stage (when all pages are downscaled (300 dpi)).
Given the amount of time iphoto sits on rendering a map I have to wonder if it might not be better to generate a map outside of iPhoto and put it in as a photo for now. I have no doubt that simple maps work ok, but as they get more complex that take longer and longer to render.

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