Media Browser problem

I use iWeb to produce a web site about my photography. I use Aperture to process my images and use the Media Browser to link those images to iWeb. I have been using this setup successfully for several years now. This week I have experienced a problem that I have never seen before.
I want to use some photos from a project I created in Aperture this week on my site. I can see the project in the Media Browser in iWeb, but none of the images in the project appear in the viewer portion of the Media Browser. Every other project in Aperture as viewed in the Media Browser functions correctly. It's really weird. I click on that specific project and no image previews show up.
I am running Snow Leopard and iLife '09. I have the latest updates for all of the software (Mac OS, iLife, Aperture). I have quit and restarted Aperture and iWeb repeatedly. I have rebooted the machine. I have trashed the plist file for iWeb. I didn't see any other funky files in the Application Support or Preferences folder for iWeb.
Does anyone have any suggestions about why this behavior is occurring and what I might try to remedy the problem?

Resolved. See thread here for resolution: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2229783&tstart=0

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