Aperture library in pages? not iPhoto

Im trying to import media (a photo) into my pages document. When I click on the media button, it only pulls up my old iphoto library, not current aperture library.
I swapped over to aperture from iphoto a couple of years ago, and imported my old iphoto library so aperture referances to these iphoto files.
In other apple apps, (such as mail) I can insert from aperture, the media shows both the old iphoto library and the newer aperture library. But not so in Pages.
I realise i can drag and drop into pages, but this is not as convinent, and anyway, It should work in pages properly.
Anyone else had this problem? Anyone solved it?
Pages 5.0.1
OSX 10.9.1

Hi Bwh888,
I think, I had the same problem. To solve it look here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24518931?tstart=0#24518931?tstart=0 or here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24494133#24494133
Aperture seams to remember that the library had been created by e.g. Aperture 3.4.1 even if you converted it to the actual version 3.5.1. Therefore it doesn't work in Pages 5.0.1.
Good luck!

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