Aperture 2 loads and allows imports--but no adjustments

Aperture 2 looks to be installed properly and allows import of photos from iPhoto. Two problems: it goes into an infinite loop of developing thumbnails. Goes into a countdown and then starts over. And over. Worse problem: *no adjustments allowed*. The adjustment sidebar is grayed out. I can click on some of the tools (not all) displayed at the bottom tool bar, but they do nothing. They create a ghost image when I'm dragging the tool, and then the ghost image goes away and there is no change. Thinking that there were too many photos, I deleted all but one. Same deal. I "trashed" Aperture and reinstalled. Same deal. Any ideas would be appreciated.

You did it correctly *(sort of).*
*Did you move the current library and preferences file to the desktop prior to loading Aperture on the new account? The idea was to create a 'new, empty' library and to reset Aperture's preferences to see if the issue is with the current (old) library or with Aperture or OS X. Although it should create a new library for the new user, it would be smart to make sure to control the test.*
My first suggestion would be to run Disk Utility (found in the Applications/Utilities folder) and run 'Repair Disk Permissions' to fix any possible issues with system / application permissions.
Start Disk Utility > select the hard drive in the left pane (typically the hard drive with a Macintosh HD partition listed below it) > First Aid tab > click the 'Repair Disk Permissions' and let it run.
This should fix any bad permissions (assuming Disk Utility does not give you an error or failure message), then closing Disk Utility and attempting to use Aperture would be your best bet.
Note - although you only have 2 GB of RAM listed, that should be enough to work with the one test image.
Message was edited by: CorkyO2. The BOLD text was added for clarification. I did not respond correctly originally.

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