Aperture 3 CPU Activity

This is actually part 2 of a post I had about Aperture 3 crashing even after I tried every fix suggested by Apple and everyone else.
I have been watching my CPU usage when I am using Aperture 3. I notice that any editing causes the CPU usage to go from a normal 20% up to as high as 80%. I am thinking that all my crashes are due to over working my CPU. (Perhaps it hits 100% at times, I don't know)
I have a imac 24, 4 GB ram, 2.16Ghz core 2 duo, OSX 10.6.6.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks...

Thanks for the reply. My computer doesn't crash, Aperture closes and I get the error that "Aperture had to close.....". It gives me an error report but I don't actually know how to translate what the report says. So far, I only this problem when I am trying to edit a photo.

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Recently I've bought an old HP XW8600 Workstation (dual Xeon [email protected], 8GB DDR2, 2x146GB SAS [email protected], nVidia Quadro FX4600).
The price was about $550. I know that for this amount of money, in the US you could buy an i5 2500k system, but here in Eastern Europe (Romania), you need at least $1000 for such a system. So I think I made a good deal on this one.... but... yes there's a BUT!
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Thought if I'm out of options, I will try to selling for the same price I've bought and somehow buy a current generation PC.
I'll end saying that it's not fair to have all this computational power and not being able to use it in PS and AI CS6!!!
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Bravo for posting the file and specific settings! That way I can try it and see if I see the same things you do, and you can judge whether your system is performing as others do...
For me:
At 30%:
I can drag each test group around interactively, and I'd estimate the frame rate at in excess of 15 FPS, since it's not quite "motion picture smooth", but too fast to count. Estimated frame rate of drags:
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test group 2: 8 FPS
test group 3: 10 FPS
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test group 2: 8 FPS (notably as fast or faster than at 40%)
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