Aperture 3 keeps making me enter serial number

This is getting to be a frustrating glitch. On a fairly regular basis, regular enough that I now have my serial number of a post-it, Aperture prompts me to enter my name and serial number when launched. Having done so it then promptly hangs, I have to force quit then relaunch and all is fine until the next time.
Have tried all the usual trashing of preferences, the Aperture System ID file etc. and have all the updates for Aperture and Mac OS but this irritating problem persists. Anyone had a similar issue and found a solution?

Hi Adam,
I've searched my Mac for "ProAppsSystemID" and the search returns no items. Would you know how to locate it? Also, where is "/temp"?
Every time we fire it up, it asks for the latest serial number... and then for the previous "upgrade" serial numbers

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