AA any way to get away from it?

I played my aces hard preflop with a reraise to isolate, since the guy called I figured high pocket pair, KK, QQ, JJ... Any way I coulda figured him for a set on the flop here?
Any way I coulda played this better?

***** Hand History for Game 2369998830 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, July 15, 21:41:31 EDT 2005
Table Table 37089 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: lifoboy2 ( $23.85 )
Seat 3: BuzzyD33 ( $24.75 )
Seat 4: Swami54 ( $23.80 )
Seat 5: havoc7 ( $10.20 )
Seat 6: Sir_Giles ( $6.10 )
Seat 7: ATHF01 ( $26.60 )
Seat 8: raptorman16 ( $23.50 )
Seat 9: Brenda21 ( $12 )
Seat 1: COOKERRR ( $25 )
Brenda21 posts small blind [$0.10].
COOKERRR posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to COOKERRR [ As Ah ]
lifoboy2 folds.
BuzzyD33 folds.
Swami54 folds.
havoc7 calls [$0.25].
Sir_Giles calls [$0.25].
ATHF01 calls [$0.25].
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raptorman16 raises [$1].
kuehn753159 has joined the table.
Brenda21 calls [$0.90].
COOKERRR raises [$2.75].
havoc7 folds.
Sir_Giles folds.
ATHF01 folds.
raptorman16 calls [$2].
Brenda21 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, 2s, 8c ]
COOKERRR bets [$7].
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raptorman16 calls [$7].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
COOKERRR is all-In.
raptorman16 is all-In.
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
COOKERRR shows [ As, Ah ] a pair of aces.
raptorman16 shows [ 8h, 8s ] three of a kind, eights.
COOKERRR wins $1.50 from side pot #1 with a pair of aces.
raptorman16 wins $46.35 from the main pot with three of a kind, eights.

you played it right

I'd raise it to $4 preflop, but your raise is good as well. Everything else is great.

With two people already committing 2xBB each you prob shouda bet 16-20xBB. I find in 25NL you gotta lay down the hammer, and lay it down hard. With AA, KK, QQ, or AK, you gotta raise minimum 6xBB preflop, with many people already in the pot preflop raise minumum 16xBB. Cause escencially your raise is telling him if he hits trips he gets your stack so hes getting about 8:1 implied pot odds versus 1 in 7 chance of hitting trips.

id raise to like 6 preflop

I dont like the huge raise on the pot. You have to assume your ahead here, and a $7 raise he commits your stack. This probably wont do anything about your loss, but if he had 99-QQ you can probably max your earnings, or if he had something like AQ that he folds to on the flop, but could hit and pay you off, or let him bluff at it.

Your hand is still strong after the flop and your only costing yourself money by betting it so hard.