Aperture creates multiple duplicates of a folder/project

so strange phenomenon happened a while back with my aperture library. Some how, apt has created multiple folders of the same projects (13 identical folders). the folder is titled 'TRAVEL' and in it are 5 projects (USA, Columbia, Europe, etc). it seems like they are all the same and actually function as one (ie if i delete one image from one of the folders, it will be deleted from all the rest. if i delete the folder itself, all 13 folders with the projects will be deleted.
I've tried several fixes to no avail. recently i've exported each project to my desktop as a library. deleted each project one by one in the main library, then deleted the containing folder. i then imported the projects back into the library, but they come in as 13 folders, each containing that project.
i really need some help with this. if anyone has an idea...
aperture 3.1.1
OSX 10.6.5
MBP core 2 duo
4gb ram
etc

Hooo,
It definitely sounds like there is some corruption in your library. Have you tried the [Basic troubleshooting|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805]?
nathan

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