Upgrading to Lion - restoring from Time Machine

So - I updated my MacBook Pro yesterday - and when I went in to play around with photostream in Aperture - I realized most of my images were missing.  (I restored from a TM backup after a clean install of Lion) The thumbnail outlines were there - but if you clicked on them you got nothing.  I can manually go get them by locating the referenced files - but that's time consuming process.  So I have two questions.
1. Is there a faster method to get all of my images back - and what could I be missing?  Will the RAW images still be associated with those .jpgs?
2. How do I avoid this situation when I upgrade my iMac which I plan to do as soon as I figure this out.
Thanks
I should also add that I don't use the default Aperture Library file - I import into my own file structure. 

Yes - I have to do that project by project - I was hoping there was a bulk method.  Also - I have one project - for which that's not working and I'm not sure why - I'm wondering if I might have imported those from iPhoto when I first started using Aperture since the file names have .importing in the name. 
I was hoping to avoid having to do this all over again when I update the iMac to Lion - which has even more images and projects.
Do you think if I chose to do migration assistant from my SuperDuper clone - that it would avoid this issue?

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