Viewer problems in Aperture 3

Ever since upgrading to Aperture 3 from 2, I have had a problem with many images that do not display properly in the viewer. I can select an image and it will display in the viewer while "loading…", but then will change once it has loaded. The change varies: sometimes it will be totally blank (gray background), other times it will be a totally different image or a combination of two or more other images. Occasionally, it will be a completely jumbled mess. Zooming or going to full screen just magnifies whatever is showing in the viewer. Selecting multiple images will usually show a mix of some correct images and some incorrect images, which change as different ones are selected. The image itself appears to be okay - I can export it and it looks fine.
I have tried repairing the database, re-building the database, and exporting projects to a new library, then opening the new library, and the problem still remains. I re-installed Aperture 3 and updated it to 3.0.3, then tried all of those again. I tried creating a brand new library and importing the image files (I tried both images exported from Aperture and the master images from inside the Aperture library file), but the problem is still there. I even went back to my backup of the version 2 library and re-converted it using 3.0.3, and the problem still persists.
The image that shows in the viewer is different each time I start up Aperture, depending on what I have selected before I hit one that is bad. Not all images seem to have the problem, but once the problem appears on an image, it seems to be persistent.
The symptoms look to me like a database problem, but the inconsistencies in behavior as well as the fact that starting over does not eliminate it, make me think that somehow Aperture has corrupted the image file itself, even though other applications (like Preview, GraphicConverter and Photoshop) are able to display the image okay.
Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know of a way to recover just the image and metadata from the image files, leaving out any possible corruption that Aperture has introduced? I am able to recover the metadata separately (although it would be a lot of work), but if I have to somehow get back to the basic image data, I'll lose any adjustments that I've made. Even that would be better than not being able to work with the images at all because I can't see them in the viewer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Paul, I recognise this. I have exactly the same. It is really driving me mad.
I also have tried to change the fan speed of the iMac24 I use for Aperture, it helped with the overall display problem I had, but this bug is still around.
I have send many automatic reports to Apple as I had to shut down the computer when it happened a few times.

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