Aperture 3.0 trial library cant reimport into 3.1.1 upgrade

I am trying Aperture since my iphoto libraries were getting hard to manage and date back to 2001. I referenced all the old iphoto libraries which I had moved from my overly full macbook to the data portion of my time machine hd. I was having trouble with it saying processing all the time and somehow updated the trial software to the newer version. Now when I open aperture it wants to create a new trial library and when I go to open other and select what I think is the one that I had working, it wants to relaunch and at relaunch then I am back in the circle of create new. Yesterday it did seem to update to the new version but now I can't reopen it to keep playing around to see if it will help my woes of organization and internal harddrive space. Thanks for any thoughts and direction.

I tried the import via a new library but it could not due to data missing that is needed. ?? You are correct in that I have not purchased it as I was using the trial first to help decide between it and other options I also tried double clicking on the library and that did not work as it wants to leave old libraries untouched I suppose due to the trial aspect.

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I have read that aperture organises the photo library differently to save space when compared to iPhoto that I understand makes duplicates for every change/edit that you make to a photo.
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