Pictures inside folders not projects?

I have come across a rather anoying problem inside of aperture of which I am not sure weather it is of my own doing or simply a bug inside aperture.
I am in the process of organizing my pictures into projects, folders and albums. Now I have one particular folder that contains three projects. These projects, in turn, contain 30, 29 and 40 pictures respectively. The folder containig the projects however contains 450 pictures, many of which i do not whish to be there.
My question: how can a folder in aperture contain more pictures then all of the projects within it? And how can i delete these pictures from the folder but not from other projects in my library?
Thanks in advance
mkoester

mkoester wrote:
My question: how can a folder in aperture contain more pictures then all of the projects within it?
In addition to clearing all the container filters in order to get complete Image counts for each container, confirm that there are no Images in any regular Albums* in the Folder that are not also in the Projects in the Folder. The total number of Images in a Folder equals the number of Images in Projects in the Folder plus Images which are not in those Projects but are in Albums in the Folder.
* Regular Albums are static. "Smart Albums" are dynamic. Naming two very different containers "Album" and "Smart Album" seems a badly played opportunity to inform users, imho, especially in light of the added complexity of Aperture having all those other static Albums (Book, Light Table, et al.).

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