Thumbnail Generation Logic is weird?

I have been spending some time on Aperture for the last couple of days with Trial version 2.1. As you know, if thumbnail is not generated (and cached of course) for an image, Aperture will show a fuzzy/blurred image in Browser Mode, and that will get clear as Aperture generates the thumbnail. As far as I can see here is how thumbnails (rendering/generation/caching) work on Aperture:
1. Aperture has some kind of a "smart" algorithm (which really is not that smart at all, at least for me) to select candidates for thumbnail generation (will go into this a bit more below)
2. Menu option: Images -> Generate thumbnails is quite useless in that it does not care what images you select (almost none) if you select more than 5-10 images. For example, select 500 images and hit Images->Generate thumbnails, it ignores what you selected and goes with its own selection algorithm. Having said that, selected images might have some kind of an influence on this, but it definitely does not render it for all 500 images, e.g. it will render 10-20 images around the current window...
3. "Smart" selection algo is not that smart I said, because it tries to select images around what you are viewing, but keep failing to do so. For example, in brower only window, hit page down couple of times, and it starts generating thumbnails for a few items on the current window/view pane, but not all!... So, it ends up generating thumbnails for like 3-4 only out of 20, and you end up with a page that has 80% broken thumbnails, 20% properly generated ones.
4. For the 80% in (3), you click on one of the images, then it starts rendering/generating the thumbnail for that particular image. Sometimes it does this in batches, e.g. you click on one and it renders that one, the one on the left and right as well, but sometimes only the one you clicked.
5. Sometimes for the same 80% in (3), you select a few images and it renders these as you select them. Sometimes it just does not. If it does not, you can hit Generate Thumbnails and it will generate it for the few.
6. What is even weirder is that, for the 80% in (3), you select some images, and it does nothing. But, then you change the focus (e.g. alt+tab to a different window) and come back to Aperture, and it will start rendering...
All in all, it is quite annoying to have inconsistent behavior like this, and the fact that Generate Thumbnails is useless is something I find really stupid! If it is there, it should work, if it is not intended to what it does, you should remove it...
I am soo ready to buy Aperture, but this thumbnail generation stupidity and constant fight with Aperture to get proper thumbnails is driving me nuts...

I really need to use a program that allows call via command line as ImageMagick to use it in an application .Net, I can generate the thumbnails with Illustrator CS5 files, but can not generate from Illustrator CS6 files, this error only appears with files from CS6, as if you know help me thank you.
Already gratefully,
Miranda

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