Aperture Trial Fails to Open

I can't find an article about why Aperture would fail to open, so I apologize if this is a well known problem.
I have a mac mini core solo with 2 gb of memory and 10.4.8. I installed the trial from the website and following that, the application fails to launch the first time. When opened, the icon appears for half a bounce and disappears again.
I've run the compatibility checker which suggested no problems. I've also attempted to install the 1.5.1 update even though I know I'm not supposed to. The result was the same.
I tried uninstalled and reinstalling and even app-zapping and reinstalling with no change.
So, does anyone have any ideas? I'm not convinced the issue is that I have a mac mini. I'm thinking it may be an incompatibility with another software that's installed, but I have too many to list here.
Mac Mini Intel Core Solo Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2gb RAM

I did actually try that. After I installed 1.5.1 the first time just to see what happened, then tried uninstalling and app-zapping - I went back to square one and got a new img and trial code. No luck there either.
(but thanks for the help)

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