Aperture Library issues.

Ok, after hours of fiddling around and getting nowhere, its time to ask for some help. Last week I was running aperture 2 just fine on my internal macbook hard drive but needed to swap to my Maxtor external to free up some space. This was relatively easy, moved the library onto the external, then pointed Aperture to where the new library was. Fine.
While out and about I uploaded some new photos and created a second library and just slapped it on my desktop. Fine, pointed aperture to this new little library, able to edit etc. All good. Possibly important - while out and about, I also did the newest Aperture update.
Now I get back home and want to access the old library. I figure if I just point aperture back to my main library on my external hard drive, it would load up. But no. The splash screen comes up and either just sits there. Sometimes the beachball until a force quit is done. And often it shows the stats of my temporary desktop library (1 project - 28 photos) even when the preferences say that it should be connecting to the External.
Kinda ripping my hair out here.
I've tried a bunch of renaming and moving around. Copied the library that was on the external drive, back onto the internal and tried booting that up. Nothing. Yet, if I create a brand new empty library, it loads up the app just fine.
Totally perplexed. Help please.
Thanks

demodonk08 wrote:
...Possibly important - while out and about, I also did the newest Aperture update.
There is a good chance that the update is what messed you up. My boilerplate recommendation for updating is:
Software-eject external drives and disconnect them. Make sure that the OS is fully version-current. Immediately prior to and immediately after every installation of any kind (essentially anything that asks for sysadmin password) I recommend repairing Permissions. Note that repairing Permissions at other times does not have the same effect as immediately prior to and immediately after installations; i.e. repairing Permissions is not some kind of magic fix to use after problems present.
On the Photoshop forums for years there have been many instances of some folks getting poor or unstable performance out of setups that other folks get good performance out of. We see the same thing here on the Aperture forums. The suggested protocol of repairing Permissions is one of the routines that many of us with long term good Adobe performance have tended to follow.
There are many tens of thousands of files with Permissions settings. IMO maintaining them in a consistent state immediately before and after each installation of any kind is a potentially useful protocol with no down side risk.
After the fact unfortunately nothing that you have not already tried that comes to my mind. Please describe exactly what all the hard drives and Libraries are, someone may have a suggestion.
-Allen Wicks

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    I can't access these images except to go into the applications. 
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