Aperture browser behaving oddly

I'm using Aperture 2.1.4 on OS-X 10.6.8. Recently the Aperture browser has been acting up. I can only scroll left and right through the browser if I do not have a thumbnail selected. If I do have an image selected I cannot scroll to other parts of the browser window. I think the latest update caused this but not sure. Can't seem to find a mode or "feature" that causes this either. Help! Thanks.

How do I re-open an issue? Since the drive was 3.5 years old I got Disk Warrior and a new drive. However, DW has found no issues. DIrectory re-build was fine, and "Check All Files and Folders" was ok as well. Had Aperture do a consistency check and rebuild the library to no avail. Same behavior as before.
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