Thumbnails in Project Window

I have a Konica Minolta 7D. When I import RAW photos from my camera initially the full-sized photos appear in the Project. The second time I open the Project, however, thumbnails are displayed in the Project Screen along with the full-size versions. If I delete the thumbnails then, upon opening the Project again, the full-sized images are unable to load in the Viewer. (They are displayed in the Viewer but the "loading..." sign is perpetually shown.) I am then unable to export or email those images.
Any ideas as to what causes this problem? Otherwise I love Aperture and its features.

Ditto for me. Imported directly from my Minolta A1, RAW. I think, the thumbnails appeared as separate images in the project view immediately after I deleted a light table. But I'm not sure what really triggered it. Deleting such a thumbnail would render the full-sized image useless. After deleting re-importing the images: Same thing.
Them again I deleted the images. And, from within the Finder, I copied the images from the camera to the hard-drive via USB. In Aperture, I imported these from the hard-drive (instead from the camera). Since then I could not reproduce the thumbnail bug.
The mere fact of importing via USB from the camera versus importing from the hard-drive seems to make the difference. Never had a problem importing to iPhoto via USB.

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