Recognition of Duplicates at Import

Something happened with a family shoot this last weekend that raises this question. I only had my iBook G4 and Graphic Converter with me, and knew that I wanted to see some photos of Halloween costumes and kids on the spot. So I set my D300 to save both RAW and JPEG files. I downloaded the images from the memory card via a card reader and Graphic Converter. GC has a setting to separate images upon download into folders based upon the extension. Once this was done, I only did simple edits, slideshows and copying of selected images to a flash drive from those images in the folder where JPEGs had been placed.
I also copied the .NEF files to another folder on the flash drive, and later at home imported those .NEF files into Aperture 2 to avoid having any JPEG masters in the project files. The metadata all seems as original, and what would be expected if I had downloaded directly from the memory card into Aperture.
Still later I shot some photos at church, without reformatting the same memory card, and then put that card into my CF reader for import into a project in Aperture. I was surprised to see the Halloween images offered for Import, and confirmed I was seeing the .NEF image files and not just the JPEG files that were on the card.
So the question is what prevented Aperture to seeing the .NEF files as duplicates that had already been imported? Was it the presence of the dual images (both NEF and JPEG) or some subtle difference in the metadata as downloaded and copied by GC?
Not a big problem, but just curious?
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Did another test, only this time shooting two to save only RAW and two to save both RAW and JPEG. Again duplicates were not recognized, even into the same Project. Results from going ahead and importing was that the project had two identical filenames and two copies of each image (leaving aside the JPEG Master on two of the four).
I think the key is that the source of the image file is considered different -- folder on flash drive from move in Finder in one case, and CF card in card reader in the other. Despite the visible EXIF data appearing identical, there must be a source code somewhere as well, so that the same filename, with EXIF indicating they were shot at the very same instant in time, are not identical, even though they are the identical image.
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