Aperture looking (but not accepting) Serial number after Snow Leopard upgrade

I have a problem with Aperture. I upgraded my Macbook Pro to Aperture 3 from 2 and my OS to Snow Leopard and now when I launch Aperture is looks for the serial number. No problem, I punch in the serial number from original packaging (Apertue 1.5) and it tells me the number is invalid!!! Tried the numbers from the various upgrades (Aperture 2 and 3) and it tells me they are upgrade serial numbers and to insert the original.
What is going on? Any suggestions people? Need help urgently. Considering a reinstall but am afraid.
The fear harks back to my Windows days - This is the kind of nonsense I had when I was a slave to Mr Gates. Come on Apple, its supposed to be easy, right?
HELP
C

Don't you have another thread open with this exact problem, except there you upgraded to 10.5.8 and were supposedly running Aperture 3 in 10.4?
Anyway have you tried the advice I posted in the other thread?

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