Why does it take one minute to delete a photo?

Most times, but not all, it takes about a minute to delete a photo. I get the colorful spinning ball, freezing up Aperture for that amount of time, before it's free again. This also happens doing other odd tasks, such as cropping, making adjustments, etc.
This is beyond just "needing more RAM" or "cleaning out the hard drive". I have 4GB on a brand new 15" MBP, and I have at least 20% of my drive free, so I'm set up for if not optimal performance, then at least passable.
Something is going terribly wrong here. The thing is, this happend on my old MBP (3 years old) and now again on this one (brand new). I'm wondering if something might be wrong with my Aperture LIBRARY.
Thoughts?

If you think there might be a problem with your library the safest course of action for you to take is to one make sure you have a good working backup of your library and then to run the library first aid procedures show at Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
As far as your system setup goes, 4gb is the bare minimum that will give reasonable performance, moving up to 8gb will most likely improve performance. You can check this out by  running Activity Monitor and monitoring the swap/page outs stats.
Is the deletes that hang  deleting both the master and version or only the version? Where is the library and masters stored, internal HD, external, referenced managed, etc.
Try to narrow down the circumstances that cause this to happen.

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