10.4.6 killed Aperture?

This is really weird. I wanted to see if the update made any difference on my machine, so I loaded up Aperture and imported some photos.
Now, Aperture runs ok, but I can't use ANY of the editing tools - no adjustments, no cropping, no spotting, no straighten, no sharpen... This is the case on both my new import and old files. It's bizarre.
Anyone know what's up?

Ditching the plist is fairly painless but you might want to drag it to the desktop and rename it instead of deleting it.
Re-installing Aperture is also not painful but it will be interesting to see how the update to 1.0.1 will work since it even when it's there, we are prompted to install it from software update. You may have to delete the 1.0.1 package from /Macintosh HD/Library/Receipts folder for it to work.
Keep us posted.
Sam

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