Albums vanish

I thought I would make friends with Aperture. I shot about 3000 images for an advertising shoot and loaded them into Aperture. I created albums for each shot and imported most of the images. I organized the days as projects with albums created for each project. After awhile the albums were stacked on top of each other with the typefaces running together making them illegible.
I quit Aperture and restarted it. Most of the albums vanished. The files were
still in the projects and when I tried to create new albums with the same names
as before I got the message the name was already in use or something like that.
So I made new albums and sorted the files from the projects again. This
time I quit Aperture and when I restarted the albums in the other project were gone. I quit Aperture and am finishing the project with Capture One. As you already know it works but then so does Bridge.
This still leaves me with a bunch of hidden albums in Aperture.
I can't believe I have had Aperture since the day it was released and finally got around to try it only to have this happen. (I have upgraded it by the way)
Thanks for any advice.
Thom Jackson
G5 Quad 2.5 Mac OS X (10.3.8)

At the top of the panel that has the library and projects in it there is a dropdown on the top left corner - do you have "All Projects" selected, or just "Show Recent"? it sounds an awful lot like you have "Show Recent" set and your albums are just aging to the point you cannot see them. As you note they are still there...

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