Cannot choose desktop picture in Lion

After upgraded to Lion, I cannot choose desktop picture from the Aperture library. The Desktop system preference pane does not show the library at first on the left column. Then after severa minutes, it shows the label "Aperture", but not its contents. Then probably after a few hours, it started to show the contnts, and I could choose one of the folders, but right after I checked the change pictures box, it switched to the default picture of Lion (galaxy).

same thing happens to me. The previews were already set to always.
repairing permissions didn't work either.
Got another tip in another thread which seemedf to help:
rm Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
from: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2646075?start=0&tstart=0

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