Master images and reconnect

Good afternoon,
I am new to Apple environment.....I have been copying files from my IPHOTO library to Aperture. I did not have any problems by solving the fact that i had master copies. I created a new project in my library for moving images in .NEF ( RAW Files only ) from the original project containing the initial images in both .NEF and .JPG. By doing this, i created more problems. I tried to relocate master, consolidate masters, tried to move the . NEF files into the initial project folder but it does not do it. When I did those moves, i have updated my vault as well.....not sure now where I should do....any help would be very gratefull.
Thanks

Hello,
I am using Aperture 2.1.4 and Mac OS 10.5.8
I have imported all my pictures from IPHOTO and created the proper project as per my events in IPHOTO no problems a while back. All my pictures were properly tagged and had the proper badges for each one of them ( stating that masters were ok ).
This week end I wanted to split the pictures in RAW and JPG located in my initial project called XXXX for instance into 2 different projects.
So what I did I created a new project called XXXXX RAW and moved the pictures .NEF ( RAW ) from the initial project to the new project called XXXXX RAW. by highlighting them and dragging them to the folder.
Every time I completed this task, I updated my vault.
Now, what I have is pictures in both folders with a badges stating that the pictures can not be found.
From there:
1. I went to the folder with the raw files, highlighted them, then I went to File\Managed Referenced File\..... and tried to reconnect them but the folders name do not match any more.
2. Tried to relocate masters
3. tried to consolidate masters
4. I then moved the pictures from the raw files back to the initial folders and tried different things but it does not work.
Again, I am quite new to Apple environment and now I quite lost....
Thanks
YB

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