Previously supported Unsupported image format

All of a sudden I am getting the maroon screen of death and an "unsupported image format" message on several TIFF images which were previously viewable. These images are not viewable in the browser (just a grey frame) or in the viewer (maroon screen of death). I can, however, export the masters to the desk top. They are not viewable in preview, but they can be opened in Canon's Digital Photo Professional. I can then convert them to Jpeg and open them in preview. I have not tried to reimport the relultant jpegs into Aperture (don't really see the point). I have tried closing aperture and reopening it, I have tried restarting the computer, I have even rebuilt the library; no soap.
When I paid good money for this program, I didn't realize I was buying a Beta version.
HPL

Thoughts.... let me think, how about hardware?
Aperture stress a computer like nothing else. I had zero problems with other apps including Photoshop, Bridge, and Lightroom but Aperture would give me the "unsupported format". Apple hardware checked my RAM fine, but I ran REMBER and it said I had bad RAM. Others have had the same experience, others have had FW HD problems, and finally a few others had motherboard problems. Not sure if a few had to reinstall Aperture.
If you still feel it is a software problem do the following.
1: If it is a removable drive, try it on a different computer.
2: If internal, mount the drive one of two ways. Try ethernet and use a 2nd computer, or target disk mode and a 2nd computer.
If it works without any problem above then try the following.
1: run REMBER to check RAM.
2: If REMBER checks RAM fine I still would try swapping sticks.
If still no go, I'd go to Apple and have them work on my computer.
One final thought.
If you have any of the apps that play around with finder dialogue boxes or uses APE (application enhancer) disable them and re-start the computer.
Something like this is VERY frustrating indeed. Good luck.

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