Album sharing gone in Aperture iPhoto

With the latest releases of Aperture and iPhoto, album sharing seems to be gone. I used to be able to go to Preferences in Aperture, share selected Albums and see them on other computers on the network in the Media brower or directly in iPhoto. Am I remembering wrong or has this feature gone away?
With Aperture 3.3 and iPhoto 9.2.3 libraries can be opened by either, but that's not convenient for merging photos from one computer to the other. Our situation is that both my wife and I take pictures, I use Aperture and she uses iPhoto. We both create Albums and sometimes we want the other person's photos.

I just ran into the same problem. I was going to switch to Aperture completely until iPhoto went from 5 to 6. It has a lot of the new features that Aperture has but there are still some awesome features in Aperture that I can't live without. One thing Aperture is missing is that it doesn't check for duplicates when importing pics. So what I decided to do is use iPhoto as my importer (whether from a camera or folder), and then use Aperture's import menu to import the rolls or pictures I want. If you haven't tried it out yet, do so. It is really awesome since it lets you select the rolls as they are saved in iPhoto and gives you a preview of each picture.

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    We need a little more information to be able to help.
    However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture.
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