Photos disappearing; showing up in Recovered Projects folder

Because I have a very large (Master) Aperture library, and multiple computers, I keep my the library on an external drive. I've recently been encountering some very strange behavior on some of the machines. (Note: I am using Aperture 3.4.5 - I have not upgraded because not all of my machines are running Mavericks.)
If I connect the external drive to my MacBook Air and open the library, everything is fine, and there is no Recovered Projects folder. However if I connect it to my MacBook Pro, or to my iMac, some photos will be marked with a yellow warning icon in the lower right corner indicating that the original photo cannot be found (despite the fact that I can double-click on the thumbnail and see the larger photo). I noticed that there is now a Recovered projects folder, and if I look in it, I find the photos that are missing (marked) in the various other projects.
My questions are:
1) Why are the photos missing from their respective projects and showing up in the recovered projects folder?
2) Why is this NOT happening on the MacBook Air?
3) Am I doing something that is not supported? (I thought the point of the "Switch to Library..." functionality was exactly this use case.)
I haven't had any recent issues with Aperture crashing while using this library.
Thanks!
Roger

The drive I am using is Mac OS Extended. I checked the "Ignore ownership..." flag; it appeared to be set already, but I de-selected then re-selected it.
That is perfect. And I do not think you need to copy the library again.
I've also changed permissions on the Aperture Library file itself to give read & write permissions to everybody; realistically only I will ever be using the library, and never more than one person at any given time.
That is good, but I would prefer to use Aperture's built-in permission repair. Launch Aperture while holding down the key combination option-command ⌥⌘, to bring up the First Aid panel, then select "Repair permissions".
The upsetting thing is - copying the photos from the recovered project folder back into the projects they belong in is not only tedious - they don't seem to stay there! Very odd, and very frustrating.
How did you copy the photos back? Drag them in Aperture's browser from the Recovered project to their original project? That should move them permanently back.
Are you using PhotoStream with that Aperture library? Can it be, that you have Photo Stream enabled on your MacBook Air, but not on your other Macs? An automatic import from Photo Stream on one computer, but not on the other machines, or an automatic syncing with FaceBook or other cloud services could account for different projects on different Machines. Check, if any Aperture preference settings are different on your Macs. I.e. check, if your Import settings are differnet - if your MBA is set to import referenced (as Ernie pointed out) and the other macs not.
Which of your macs are running Mt. Lion, and which Macs are running Mavericks? If you are using Photo Stream, it may be behaving differnetly on the different systems.

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