"unsupported image file" message

hi there, this is the message that appears with some tiff files saved by Photoshop CS2: unsupported file image.....
But if I export the master of the file and open back in photoshop, the file is OK
Does anybody can solve this problem?
I've tried rebuilding all the projects but still happens the same and sometimes the "corrupted" files work fine after but other that were OK, give the error message.... !?!?!?!?
It's frustrating for my job, wasting a lot of time to export, save, then import again without solution
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP
PowerMac G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4Gb Ram, 3x1Tb HD ext drives

How big are the TIF's?
Are you reading them across from an external HDD?
Is the external on FW400, FW800 or eSATA?
I used to have problems with 200+Mb TIF's from scans, but this got corrected by the development team. Recent posts say that there is still a problem with very big TIF's.
Other possibility is the graphics card. If you have the 6600, then it's slow speed may be causing Aperture to "time out" waiting for the TIF to render. This will be exacerbated by a slow external disk sub-system. Again, this should be associated with big TIF files of >200Mb.
G.

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