Can you re-factor an Aperture library to have smaller directories?

Is there a way to re-factor an Aperture library bundle so none of its internal directories have more than 32000 entries?
(I'm asking because my Aperture library weighs in at 44GB+ (and that's using referenced images) and so I want to move it to my RAID server. Unfortunately, my RAID server's filesystem, built on ext3, imposes a limit of 32000 entries per directory. One of the sub-directories in my .aplibrary file has 46000+ entries, so the RAID server can't hold the library.)
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If your library is on external volume, select the icon of your external Disk on your Desktop or in the "Computer" window in the Finder.
Select "File > Get Info" from the main menu bar or press cmd-I.
Click the padlock icon in the lower right corner of the Info-panel and authorize.
Disclose the "Sharing & Permissions" brick and enable the "Ignore Ownershp" flag.
Also select the library in the Finder and again select "File > Get Info" from the main menu bar. In the "Sharing and Permissions" brick add "Read & Write" privileges for yourself, and give yourself "Read&Write" access, if you do not have it.

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