RAW+Jpeg Thumbnail Viewing Problems

Question

A bit confusing...
I shoot RAW+Jpeg. My Jpeg's are B&W by in-camera choice, I have a Canon 5D w/ Picture Styles.
I import into Aperture from the CF card. It shows only the RAW pix, as it should.
When I browse the Project folder for these new pictures, select them, and choose New Version From Master JPEG, the Jpeg's come in stacked with their RAW counterparts, and they appear in thumbnail not as B&W but same as RAW color converted. If I unstack, there is no change of the Jpeg to B&W. If I view the Jpeg in the Viewer, finally I see it as B&W. This doesn't work for me. I want the B&W thumbnail.
On the other hand. If I have set these pix in an album, and then select New Version From Master JPEG while in that album, the Jpegs come in individually, showing as B&W....BUT.... since they are in the Album and not the Project, they are not represented in the Project folder, and any Keywording that I may have done in the Album is unsearchable. So I essentially get the view that I want of the thumbnail but Aperture doesn't really know it's there.
To make matters worse, an earlier Project that I drew the Jpegs into does seem to show the Jpeg thumbnail stacked with the RAW, and in B&W as desired. I can't remember if the B&W thumbnails came in that way at first of Aperture finally got around to properly representing them as such at a later launching.
I have been encountering some frustrating inconsistency with this application, and am getting very very tired of not just being able to use it without having to track down why it's not operating properly every time I import.
I still don't know why the Library 5-star smart folder only shows the same small portion of select pics, when I have continued to add many more 5 star ratings in subsequent Project folders.
My Referenced image folders, and my vaults, have been very secure.
.......todd

Answer 1

Hey Karen,
Thanks for coming in on this, you were very helpful w/ directing me to bringing up the Jpegs from behind the RAWs with New Version from Master JPEG in one of my other queries.
I want to reference your comments as paragraphs 1), 2), 3), 4), if I might, so as to shorten the text here:
1) My images are in a Project folder, from there I created an Album.
While in the Album I selected all the images, and clicked on New Version from Master JPEG. The JPEGs came in seperately, i.e. not stacked with the RAWs, and the thumbnail appearance was B&W, which is what I was hoping for.
I Keyworded all the images in the Album, and then for kicks and confirmation, I tested the keywords in a search, my search was totally baffling.
When I searched for my "B&W" keyword, only the color Raws came forward, why? I don't know, there was no such keyword used on these images.
Also, I discovered that none of the JPEG's were showing up in the Project folder.
Next, I decided to select the RAW pictures in the Project folder. I then applied New Version from Master JPEG, and the Jpegs came up stacked with the RAWs.These JPEGs showed now in both the Project folder and the Album. But the problem for me was that both the RAW and JPEG were in color, identical to each other.
When I unstacked these stacks and Keyworded either in the Project or Album folders, indeed, they were searchable. But mind you, no thumbnail was to be seen that was B&W in appearance, and this was unacceptable, I count on being able to see the B&W thumbnail.
And, more confusingly, other earlier Albums have not all had the same problems with bringing in B&W thumbnails.
2) The smart album that I'm refering to here is the Library root select folder that has the 5 stars. It should have no problem collecting my 5 star images, wherever they are. Or so I thought. But quite a few 5 star images were not making it into this smart folder.
But now, since your writing, I went into a couple of Projects and had to manipulate the images to appear, which they finally did in both the smart folder in a Project, as well as the root "Select" folder in the Library. So now they show up in both places as they should. The solution was to make sure that the 5-star image was the Pick of a stack for it to show up in a "select" smart folder. I'm a little disappointed that stack internals seem to escape the search. I think this problem needs to be remedied. Until then, I guess I have to just be more diligent.
3) Thank you, I'll hit this link a little later, I have paid some attention to this site, it's been really helpful.
4) I did go to this site, unfortunately nothing here has helped my problem with the Jpegs.
.......todd