Aperture WON'T INSTALL - ?????

this started out as the 'can't rebuild the library' problem elucidated in a recent post but has moved to a more serious complete work stopping situation:
yes, same problem here too!! we are professional fotogs, this is really NOT acceptable.
we know the library is still saved there somewhere, we can access the pic files inside the aperture package, but aperture will NOT rebuild the library.
NOW:
reinstalling aperture is NOT even working. i get: 'an error occurred, install failed' EVERY TIME. i've tried from the 152 and 154 packages from the apple download site, i've tried 152 from disc, SAME RESULT.
this is CRAZY. this must be fixed IMMEDIATELY. APPLE. PLEASE. AT LEAST POST A WORKAROUND/FIX.
anyone with any ideas, tia.

well, brute force solved it. i think on the 9th install attempt it worked. i'm pretty sure i didn't change anything, but for some reason it finally went through.
aperture is running on that machine again -- i made a new lib on another machine, imported all the projects from old lib (delete file suffix on aperture lib to access as folder) then transferred that new/fixed lib to the problem machine...
works fine now.
man. what an ordeal. thanks for the replies and suggestions.

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