Problem: Library alert, recovery, then nothing

Problem: When Aperture opens, it shows 85 images in 6 projects not backed up. But instead of showing the projects on the left, it only shows the library icon. Then the following alert appears:
Library Alert, The following new or unknown items have been found in the library:
Albums:
* or better
Rejected
In the Last Week
In the Last Month
2007
2006
2005
2004
All images
Would you like to recover these items now?
I hit the button "Recover Now".
It says "recovering." Shortly thereafter it says successfully recovered.
But none of my project icons/images appear. Just the lone library icon.
Background
I have 47,000 images on an external 500 Gig drive. The location is correctly set in the preferences.
At first I thought it might be Aperture itself. So I plugged the drive into my MBP and got the same result. (Complication: I just updated the MBP to 1.5.3 yesterday, in case there's something screwy with 1.5.3)
I ran disk utility and Disk Warrior on the drive. It appears to be OK.
I ran the "Manage Referrenced images" routine. It counted all 47,000+ images, then told me I have no referrenced images, which is true. It also updated the previews. But the bottom line here is that the project icons don't appear, and consequently neither do any images.
I'm hoping there's just some preference or plist or plugin some other software toggle that needs to be reset.
Although I've backed up all but 85 images to the vault, I hesitate to rebuild from the vault. That's because I had trouble doing that once a year ago and view that option as a last resort.
Any suggestions for what to do next will be very appreciated. I love Aperture, but the possibility of losing all my images because of this kind of glitch has always concerned me. I realize I can ultimately open the library via the control "view contents" and extract images, but that would be a long, awful process.
Dual Powermac, MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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