Studio white balance turns blue in Aperture

I have just noticed this problem in Aperture. In the studio I shoot a grey card to set the white balance and Curves grey point afterwards for the whole batch in Aperture. It has been working fine, for several years in fact, but now the white background has a definite blue tinge which carries over to the processed image, I can correct it in Photoshop by using the white eyedropper in curves but surely Aperture should get it right at the beginning of the whole process! All my settings have remained the same.
Is anyone else having this problem?

Ah hah! I have played around with the white balance tool and think I have the answer.
I foolishly thought that by clicking on a grey card with the eye dropper set to "Natural Grey" that I would get a perfect result - silly me! I now find that I have to have the eye dropper set to "Temperature & Tint" - (just like the old days!) and this produces the perfect white.
So whats the point in having a grey option when it doesn't work with grey objects, and while I'm on the subject, who'se skin tone is that setting calibrated to - a white European, a tanned European, an African, an American Indian or an eskimo, because no two peoples skin tones are the same?

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