Help Menu Fix!!!

So I was in an Apple Store today and thought I'd do some digging in a retail Aperture install. I have discovered a fix!
Step 1: Download the user manual, exploring Ap, and Keyboard shorts pdfs
Step 2: Navigate to /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ (use Cmd-shift-G and paste in) Create a new folder called Help.
Step 3: Create a HelpMenu.plist Open textedit and paste in the following. save as a txt only and replace .txt with .plist Save it to the Help folder.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<array>
<dict>
<key>Path</key>
<string>Aperture User Manual.pdf</string>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Aperture User Manual</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Late-Breaking News</string>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://www.apple.com/support/lbn/?product=Aperture&version=2.0&language=z</string>
</dict>
<string></string>
<dict>
<key>Title</key>
<string>New Features</string>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Path</key>
<string>Exploring Aperture.pdf</string>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Exploring Aperture</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Path</key>
<string>Keyboard Shortcuts.pdf</string>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Keyboard Shortcuts</string>
</dict>
<string></string>
<dict>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Aperture Support</string>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://www.apple.com/support/aperture/</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Aperture on the Web</string>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://www.apple.com/aperture/</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Apple Training Centers</string>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://www.apple.com/software/pro/training/centers.php</string>
</dict>
<string></string>
<dict>
<key>CommandID</key>
<string>createProfiling:</string>
<key>Title</key>
<string>Create Support Profile…</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>Version</key>
<string>1.10</string>
</dict>
</array>
</plist>
Step 4: rename your help files to: Aperture User Manual.pdf Exploring Aperture.pdf and Keyboard Shortcuts.pdf
Step 5: drop those in the help folder
Step 6: relaunch Aperture
If you use a language other than English, you can create the Help folder in the language's .lproj folder.
Post questions if you have them. Hope this helps!

Many thanks for your post but unfortunately it does not work for me.
Have followed your post but when I click on Help in Aperture I just get a search field which if I type into just gives me pointers to subjects in Aperture's Menus.
Don't suppose you have any clues?
Thanks
Edit :This was in response to your first post - your second appeared whilst I was typing
I will try your alternative method
Message was edited by: Adam Rickets

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