Aperture constantly asking for serial number

I just bought a new Macbook Pro and after transferring everything from my old one using firewire Aperture would not launch -- it had only my upgrade serial number and not the original one, which I can no longer locate. In disgust I went back to the Apple store and bought a new copy of Aperture just to get a new serial number. I keyed that in and all is well except now it asks me to key in the serial number every time I launch the program!!!! It's driving me insane!!
And help would be much appreciated!

Thanks Allen -- I did call Apple this morning using last night's case number and we managed to solve the problem by removing some arcane ID file. Whew!
One thing the Apple rep said is that Pro apps should not be transferred using Migration Assistant and should instead be completely installed from scratch. Who knew?
BTW the new Macbook Pro has the most gorgeous screen ever --photos look astounding on it. And of course, that's the problem -- they look TOO astounding! But hey, my heavy lifting is on my desktop system so I guess I can live with the pretty pictures! The system positively SCREAMS by comparison to my two year old MacBook Pro.

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