AP3 - Repairing Library - 0% Complete

After a week and a half of trial and error, I finally have my AP3 libraries up and running for the most part. However with the larger of my libraries (50GB library file size, library located on internal hard drive, all masters are referenced to an external drive) I do have an image that displays the correct thumbnail, but the image that shows in the browser (both at full screen and browser view) is the incorrect image. I am trying to repair my library via the command+option command when starting up aperture, however when I select Repair Database, the Repairing Library Database status bar comes up, but does not move from 0% complete. I am going on about 15 minutes at 0% complete right now. Activity monitor shows nothing abnormal, and shows most of my memory free with aperture using very little (147.1mb).
Has anyone had any luck with the Repair Database option? I have had luck in the past with rebuilding library, at least as far as getting it to actually go through the whole process..but it appears the Repair Database option just will not work for me. Anyone else?
also curious if maybe this is just because it is a huge library that it may take a while. when i run the Repair Datbase option on a sub-library that I exported out of AP3 from my iMac and moved to my MBP it runs without fail.
Message was edited by: Abbstrack

im having the same problem, i leave the repairing library database open for a whole weekend and... 0%
but I can't access my library at all, it fails to open.
i have 6 libraries most of them are pretty large.
4/6 of them wont open and wont repair ( 0%)
I am storing my libraries on a 6TB Drobo over 800
I upgraded to aperture 3.0 and converted my libraries and they worked... (slowly) for a while, and then this happened.

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