Olympus E-P1, RAW files, barrel distortion and Snow Leopard

I currently use Aperture 2.0, a MacbookPro, and a new Oly E-P1.  I have just returned from a trip to Spain with over 1000 RAW files.  Aperture won't recognize them.  Tricking Aperture into accepting them as E-30 RAWs leaves in huge barrel distortion issues. Always silent Apple won't even say if they're working on recognizing them in an upcoming release.  The native OLY RAW converters mostly correct the barrel distortion with funny math in their extremely lame Olympus Master 2 that came with the camera.  Raw Photo Processor (which I was counting on to save me) which will recognize the files, also leaves in barrel distortion.
I understand that the latest Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 will read Oly E-P1 RAW files.  I see no way to use Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 without upgrading my current Photoshop from CS to CS4 and purchasing Lightroom.  Total cost, about $400.  I might be willing (as an amateur) to do this, as I probably need to upgrade to CS4 anyway, BUT, I understand through a little digging on the web, that I will probably have to downgrade my OS from OS X v. 10.6 (Snow Leopard) apprently not supported by Adobe yet.  Both of these will be a major commitment of time and money.
I would like to make sure that the Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 does indeed correct the barrel distortion first.  Anybody out there using it?  Also, if anyone has any other suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.

If you want to try, just download the LR 2.5 demo version from the Adobe Website. You don't need to upgrade Photoshop. Lightroom will work just fine by itself, even when using CS as the external editor as it contains the full ACR raw rendering kernel and you can just have Lightroom render tifs to be sent to PS. Also, Lightroom and CS4 work perfectly fine on 10.6. Lightroom should be run in 32-bit mode for the time being if you need the tight Photoshop integration, but that is about it. I don't know where you got the info that you would need to downgrade. That is simply false.

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