Aperture Slideshow Slide timing problem

We are having a problem with Aperture on an iMac. We have several preset slide shows that we use frequently in our office, and just recently, the slide show began to have a weird bug. When the slide show is stopped manually with the space bar, then started again with the space bar, it will play about 6 slides at a much faster rate than our settings. Then it goes back to normal. If we try to compensate for that by going back a few slides, then Aperture plays up to 25 slides at a faster speed, then goes back to the time we put in the preset. This occurs in multiple projects.
We are playing the slides with music, showing the photos for a fixed time, not looping the slides how, crossfade is checked. It does this with a project of 100 images or with a short slide show of 12 images. We have restarted Aperture and the Mac. We are using the latest version of Aperture. I tried making a new preset and it still happened.
This is a really embarrassing problem to have when presenting to our clients. Any ideas? I am seriously considering re-installing the program. Is there a way to repair" the installation so that we don't have to reinstall?
We are running an iMac with OS 10.4.11, 2.33Ghz, 2MB Ram.
Thanks,
Carol E.

Update...
I had tried copying my Aperture library directly to my iMac, as stated above, which did not work. Then, I copied the library to another LaCie HD that I got from Mac Mall, and that worked fine. It turns out that both of these are formatted for the MacOS, but they aren't journaled, so FAT32 is not the problem (journaling maybe or some other issue, but not FAT32).
So last night, I went to the Apple Store with my iMac and two external hard drives in tow.
So I'm in the Apple store with the a Creative guy, who is a very experienced Aperture user and photographer. We operate my iMac attached to my "Aperture Library external drive". The slide show misbehaves as expected. It does the same with the small temporary library I had made, too, on the iMac. So we hook that same HD to one of the STORE Mac Book Pro computers.... and LO and BEHOLD.... *+that computer also had the same issue as mine+*
I said "HA! I broke your computer!" So he reboots the store's Mac Book Pro, which has Deep Freeze on it, and it goes back to the same state it was in before we were using it. He runs a slide show again, same problem with the timing after pausing a slide show.
The conclusion is: The problem with the slide show is an update to Aperture and/or the video card for the iMac and Mac Book Pro, because those two computers use the same video card. Or perhaps some other OS update that affects both of those computers and whatever hardware they have in common. The guy helping me suspects the video card or something related. I went and tried the Mac Pro in the store, and it does not have this issue (same as my Mac Pro at the office). However the Mac Pro did exhibit some strange slide show behavior, as a horizontal (refresh rate problem?) line that travels up the screen during the slide show.
I couldn't say if all the newer iMacs or Mac Book Pro's in the store have this problem. He used one of the laptops that they have at the creative bar for doing classes to test things. But it is possible if you go to an Apple store and use Aperture on their iMac or Mac Book Pro computers, you will see the same thing (pause the slide show and it screws up the timing).
As to the file problem... I don't think there is a problem with the files anymore, since it copied just fine to another external hard drive. I think the problem is with the iMac. I can access the library and I can vault it to another external, and I can copy the library to another external using finder. I just can't get it back on the iMac. I may fiddle with moving the files around some more and see what happens, but I may just have to live with the fact that the library won't move back to the iMac internal drive. We plan to get another Mac Pro in a few months, so perhaps this won't even matter.
Anyway thanks for the help on this issue. Hopefully Apple is listening, or at least listening to an Aperture user that has also found this problem. I will probably post on some more forums, and maybe someone with some influence will check out the problem.
Carol E.

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