Aperture lost all my album settings!

Spent about 3 hours setting up a wedding album with a customer. I printed one page as a proof to see how things were going. Looked good. Went back in and was going to print 4 more pages. Just before I presssed the "print" button in the print dialogue, Aperture "quit" unexpectedly! After I restarted the application, it had lost all the work I had done on the album! The images are still in the project, and there is an album, but the album reverted to another theme than the one I was using and lost all the images! Is there anything I can try to get the album setting back, or am I just screwed? Wish we knew if anyone at Apple ever reads these things.
Dual Core 2.0 G5, G4 Laptop   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   2.5Gbyte RAM

Hi Ken,
If this is what I think you are referring to Ken, then don't worry, all is not lost.
This has happened to me once or twice in the past when either installing a new version of iTunes or when I have re-linked my iPod to my other computer.
One thing to check first though:
If you open iTunes and look in your Library and select any track you like (you don’t kneed to play it) and make sure that you have the 'Show or Hide Song Artwork' tab at the bottom left of iTunes (its the fourth one in) selected, can you see the Artwork for your track?
I know you are concerned about the artwork on your iPod, but this is important, if it is showing that’s great. If not, it might just be switched off. If you look at the grey bar that makes the top of the Artwork box that views the image, does it say 'Selected Song' or 'Now Playing'? If it is the latter, then with your mouse just click on it and your Artwork for that track should appear.
Makes sure this is the case for a few others, and if so, your artwork is not lost and can easily be put back on to your iPod.
Now Make sure your iPod is connected and showing in the Sources list on the right of iTunes.
Now go into the iPod options menu by going to the Edit menu and selecting the bottom option 'Preferences' and then opening the iPod tab. You will see an option to show your artwork on your iPod. Select this then click OK out of the Preferences and do an update.
iTunes will then say its updating your iPod, and when it has confirmed that your music is updated, it will then import all your artwork back into your iPod and it should then be present when you use your iPod.
Depending how many tracks you have on your iPod and in iTunes, this might take quite some time. For me last time without about 4 tracks on an AMD Athlone this took about 40 minutes.
I hope this is of help.
Drusus

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