Referenced masters

Just installed the trial last night. Like a lot of people, I just dove in, imported everything, and started cleaning up my hard drives (before reading the difference between aperture managed and user managed photo locations and the difference between projects/blue folders/brown folders/albums).
After importing all my photos (5000ish), I did the responsible thing and deleted them.
Luckily, I actually (for once) had a backup.
I'm not sure what I did wrong, but 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006 imported just fine. 2005 got 'referenced'. Of course, I didn't find that out until I'd spent all night organizing 6 years of photographs.
So, I thought I'd sort by badge, delete all the 'referenced' files and reimport 2005. So far so good. If I select all images, then choose file>managed referenced files, it says I have none. Still looking hopeful. However, if I go to consolidate masters (just to make sure I'm not messing around with 'referenced files' again) it says it can't consolidate because there are missing masters.
I'm guessing (hoping) that this is just Aperture's way of helping me to find my sense of humor. But I thought I'd check with more experienced users to find out if there is something else I'm doing wrong.
G5 DP 1.8 (4GB RAM; ATI x800) | MBP 2.16 17" (2GB RAM)   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

In the general metadata view, for each image Aperture lists a "Master Location" - for an offline master it should say where it expects that master to be.
I would try copying the real master files wherever that is pointed to, then retsart Aperture...
It cannot consolodate masters (bring them back into library) without first knowing where they really are.
If Aperture says the master location is inside the Aperture library, still try to put the master where it points to within the library.

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  • Referenced masters:  How can you tell where a photo's master is?

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