Aperture trial un-install query

Having used the trial version of Aperture and been somewhat underwhelmed, I'm now getting error messages about being short on hard disk space. I have therefore dragged the Aperture application into the Trash but there is no discernible space saving. Could someone please spell out for me what libraries I can safely delete as with my limited knowledge it appears that my whole iPhoto library has been duplicated - hence the many gigabytes of space consumed.
Many thanks in anticipation.
iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 24" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1Mb Ram

Hi Scott,
Sorry to hear you are underwhelmed.
when you imported iPhoto, it sounds like you imported it physically vs. logically, hence the duplication of space. To get the space back, go to Picture and trash the file aperture library.aplibrary. Once the trash is emptied, you'll have your space back.
Aperture has a couple of support files elsewhere, but they only amount to a couple of Mb, and may as well be left
Library/Receipts/Aperture ....blah.pkg
user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist
G.

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