Strange RAW processing problem

I've just jumped into the Mac world recently with a Mac Pro (which I absolutely love). I've been watching Aperture since it was announced. A friend of mine has been using it for a while. He has Cannon cameras and so he is golden. However, I was playing with it the other day to get a feel before I decided to purchase. I loaded up a set of RAW files from my Olympus E-500 and was ready to play. Unfortunately several of my shots ended up looking like this on screen:
http://PhilU.smugmug.com/photos/103737186-M.jpg
Lightroom (Adobe's RAW processing has always been excellent) shows the same problem images just fine:
http://PhilU.smugmug.com/photos/103737163-M.jpg
This is on Aperture 1.5 on 10.4.8.
This seems to be an issue with long exposures that have the "Noise Reduction" (dark fram subtraction) turned on. I had a few long exposures with it turned off that looked fine and also some shorter exposures with it turned on that looked fine. That's just speculation though.
Has anyone else run into this? Is there anything I can do to make it work?

Yea, same for me in all apps using the core RAW functionality (Preview, iPhoto, Aperture, etc.)
I had thought this thread was dead long ago. I did get it submitted as a bug on http://bugreport.apple.com back then - it is still in "Open" status. Hope they get a chance to take a look at it.
The upside is that the workaround I mentioned before is still in effect. I also noticed that the last RAW update included a DNG fix so that files converted with the newer versions of the DNG converter are read properly. Would still be nice to have native ORF working properly (it does work fine most of the time, just not with images of the particular combination listed above).

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