Aperture Preferences: can't access under Leopard

Hi,
I've recently upgraded to Leopard and Aperture 1.5.6 appears to be working fine for me after a brief test (nothing exhaustive as yet).
However, if I try to access the Preferences window from the Aperture application menu, Aperture dies 100% of the time. I choose the menu option, the beachball cursor appears for a bit, and then Aperture just quits. So at present I can't alter anything in the preferences.
I haven't managed to discover whether some other software is causing this to happen or whether it's something to do with Leopard itself. Does anyone else see this behaviour?

It's solved!
I suddenly realised, after spending ages looking at the Aperture crash reports and doing other testing, that I'd completely forgotten to see if there was any useful Console output when Aperture crashed. So I had a look and found a very revealing line associated with each crash, saying:
"Custom ColorPicker class with name .DS_Store could not be loaded."
I wouldn't have expected colour pickers to be involved when merely opening preference windows that apparently don't use them, but removing the custom pickers seemed the obvious thing to try, and did indeed cause the crash to go away. So I narrowed down the search and have identified the culprit as the RCWebColorPicker which can be obtained from here:
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCWebColorPicker/
I had version 1.0 installed and found that a 1.1 update had been issued, so I attempted to download it. It turns out that the link to version 1.1 is actually broken and just leads to a 'not found' page, but after a brief experiment in editing the URL, I found that the following works:
http://www.rubicode.com/Downloads/RCWebColorPicker-1.1.dmg
However, version 1.1 suffers from the same problem as 1.0 (i.e. it upsets Aperture), so I mention the above just in case anyone's interested in investigating further. Obviously I wouldn't recommend installing it at present! Source code to the picker is actually available on the site, and I'm going to email the author to let him know about the problem.
The interesting thing is that I've had this picker running fine under Tiger since last year and it hasn't caused a problem with Aperture in the past, so the problem behaviour is new to Leopard.
My thanks to everyone who offered help here, and to the Apple programmer who emailed me privately.

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