Referencing a single Iphoto Event into Aperture

Hi Everyone,
I recently imported my entire iPhoto library into Aperture making sure that 'store files' was set to 'In their current location' so that Aperture would reference from iPhoto. This worked fine.
My problem... I recently imported a new batch of pictures into iPhoto and realized after the fact that my Aperture Library was now 'out of sync'. I then used the 'Import from iPhoto Browser' feature and selected the new event in iPhoto that I wanted Aperture to reference.
However, even though I have 'store files in their current location' still selected... Aperture copies the pictures from this iPhoto event into it's Library as a new project/event. Where am I going wrong? I would prefer to keep the originals stored in iPhoto and not have them duplicated into Aperture's Library.
I simply would like Aperture to reference them as it is doing for my other events that were originally referenced when I first set up Aperture.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
K

Simply, you can't. If you import Event by Event that cannot be used with Referenced Files, only managed ones. You can relocate the Masters afterwards, of course, should you wish.
Remember Aperture is not designed to be used with iPhoto, but instead of it.
Regards
TD

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