Aperture 2: Adjustments suddenly grayed out

Some help for an Aperture noob please. Subject line says it all about the symptoms so I guess I need to describe how I got myself into this fine mess:
1. Imported some photos (taken with an Olympus E-510), selecting to leave the photos where they are rather than physically importing them.
2. Played about with Apertures raw adjustment settings on some of these photos.
3. Exported the photos I'd played with to directory on my Mac.
4. Created a small .me gallery and published.
I think it was after step 4 that my problems started. All the adjustments (i.e. exposure, white balance, shadows/highlights and so on) are now grayed out, for all projects. Oddly, I can undo and redo all adjustments on a previously edited photo but I cannot select any individual adjustment.
Note: This is a trial copy of Aperture. Where did I go wrong?
Regards
J

I experience this, from time to time, and normally I only need to again click on the thumbnail in the Browser line to have the controls turn black again. I will have to better observe the sequence of actions, but I don't think my situation has anything to do with switching into Preview mode.
Ernie

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