Aperture library lost after deleting preferences/repair?

Hi:
I tried opening Aperture this morning and got an error message saying: "There was an error opening the database for the library <library_name>."
I found this article from Apple support (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805) on the problem. I wasn't able to use the "first aid" tools (even with Option/Cmd held down, Aperture refuses to open) so I deleted my user preferences.
I was able to reopen Aperture, but now EVERYTHING is gone. I use referenced files (apparently, a good thing in this case) so I know that the original RAW or TIFF files are there. I also verified this independently through Finder.
However, I'm not sure where all my projects are, or my keywords/tags on the photos. My fear is that this is all stored in the Aperture database, and that it's all gone at this point. Is that the case?
By the way - I tried a repair, and nothing happened. I'm guessing the library file is "zeroed out" at this point (everything gone) and so a repair job didn't have anything to repair.
Bottom line - how screwed am I at this point?
Jim

Hi Frank:
I really appreciate all your help, especially since I know you're doing this out of the kindness of your heart...
OK, answers:
All referenced files, nothing managed.
There's a backup (I think) of library from last month, I may end up reverting back to that.
RE: how the drive is formatted - I was pretty sure I'd formatted it OS X extended with journaling, but Disk Utilities show it's a Win NT filesystem.
Tried copying the library to my internal HDD, it won't even copy over (the copy function just says "Preparing to copy to desktop" but never completes).
I'll try the rebuild but since I (apparently) can't get Aperture to 'skip over' the new catalog it creates (as opposed to pointing it to the old catalog), then I don't know how the rebuild will turn out.
Been using it for a while, and there's enough work in it that it'll be a PITA to recreate - especially if I've lost my tags and my non-destructive edits. If those are all still there somehow, someway, in XML files or whatever, that's cool. Fortunately my file structure on the HDD is "/PHOTOS/<year>/<month/<shoot date and name>", and the structure for my projects is (was?) the same. So if all I have to do is recreate the projects, not a big deal.

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