Panasonic Lumix LX3, shooting RAW with Film Modes

I've been shooting RAW+JPEG and testing Film Modes (for example B&W) and noticed that RAW images will import "tabula rasa" without any of the Film Mode settings applied. JPEGs are naturally as supposed.
I'm wondering if this is how it's supposed to work, as the RAW's first show a thumbail with Film Mode's settings, for example b&w first shows as b&w, but eventually Aperture processes a new thumbnail with standard raw settings. (I don't have previews on).
I know raw is raw and you can't shoot it b&w, but I can't help thinking if there are some in-camera RAW settings that Aperture just doesn't know how to read and pre-apply when it's imported.
The in-camera b&w settings would be nice starting point for further raw-editing in Aperture, but now one has to start from scratch.
Anyone know if this is how it works, maybe with other cameras too?

That's propably it. Only, I've read some reviews of LX3 that claim you can also shoot Film Modes in RAW. For example Mark Goldstein at photographyblog.com says:
"This [=film mode] applies to both JPEG and RAW files, so you can effectively shoot a black and white RAW file, for example, out of the camera if you wish (although I'm not sure why you'd want to...). "
This makes no sense to me as I believe you can only get one kind of RAW from a sensor, but it makes me wonder if there still should be a way to have some kind of B&W RAW straight from the camera and Aperture just doesn't know how to interpret it.
I also agree with Goldstein that I wouldn't want it to shoot b&w destructively, but rather as a non-destructive "layer".
Also the LX3 manual doesn't say a word that you couldn't use Film Modes when shooting RAW, and it's quite good at telling what is not applicable for certain modes.

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