Quick Preview unusable - images are "squared"/blurred

Hi,
Probably since 3.1.2 upgrade or 10.6.7 or turning on Time Machine I am experiencing following behavior:
I have project for my family photos in aperture for this Year where I have folders for months and then albums for events. I usually drag and drop the selected images from Import browser to appropriate album.
The problem is when I use Quick Preview - then all of imported images (in whole Album, but not project) are "squared"/blurred (you can imagine that like if you take image 200*200 and resize it to 1680*1680) - the small and middle preview are squared and the biggest and fullscreen are clear.
When I turn of the Quick Preview then the Loading... appears and clear the image. I can then turn on the Quick Preview and it stays clear until I restart the Aperture and squared image is back.
When I start the Aperture and select the album/project it automatically starts processing (Processing IMG_XXXX) some, seems random, number of images) - and nothing happened. (turn off and turn on Aperture and processing starts again).
Here is what I tried (no success with anything):
- Delete preview and generate new previews
- Copy to other project
- Change the size of the preview image (from 1680*1680 to 1920*1920) in Aperture preferences
- Change preview image quality to 9 from 8 in Aperture preferences
- Export the project as New library - this has one effect - the biggest preview and fullscreen image are squared here also
- applied all file permissions to files as are by default on Picture folder
- Repaired permissions
So in summary:
- preview pictures are squared
- aperture does not remember/store the smaller quick preview files after restart
And here is a example of the image:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17422374/example-squared.png
Thank you for any help or ideas to try.
Regadrs
Princatko
Mac OS X 10.6.7, with FileVault turn on
Aperture 3.1.2, masters are in Aperture Library, Library sits in ~/Pictures/ (default place)
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Since you've covered most everything (inc. permissions repair), it's probably time to move on to "Repair Database" and then, if needed, to "Rebuilt Database".
Instructions are found on [the general trouble-shooting page.|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805]

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