Cannot open Aperture on my new Macbook Air

Hello,
I have had Aperture 3.1 on my iMac, and solely purchased the Macbook Air to use for my photography and Aperture while on the road... just got the MBA today, did the whole Migration Assistant thing, and have Aperture on the Air, but when I try to open it, it asks for the serial number, I type it in, but then it throws up an Alert saying
"The serial number you entered is not valid."
I triple checked the serial number to make sure I typed it in correctly, and had done so, even double checked the serial number (I was getting it from clicking on the 'About Aperture' in Aperture) with the online order purchase receipt, and is the same number I have typed in, but am getting this alert.
I checked the forums here and found that I can have Aperture on both my iMac and my Macbook Air (well, the post I found was for a Macbook Pro, but same thing), with the whole single license user thing, so why am I getting the Alert message? Is there some permissions somewhere that I have to do something with so that I can have it on both my computers? I purchased and downloaded it online directly from Apple.
Thank you very much for your time and whatever help you may provide.
All the best to you,
JPH

Hello, CorkyO2 & Tim, thank you both for your replies.
Corky - Yeah, I had found and seen those two posts... the first, couldn't help because I never had a hard copy disc of the application, but downloaded it straight from Apple... the second I disregarded, because this copy of Aperture is my first and never had any previous versions that I upgraded from... though I may try that 2nd link solution anyway just to see if it may work - after I can get Aperture to even do what it was when I originally posted:
Thinking that it may just be a Migration Assistant thing, I thought I would just start all over from scratch, and erased and formatted the Air HD, and reinstall the Air with that little USB thing, and then from my iMac copy the Aperture program onto my thumb drive and load it onto the Air that way. Well, that just made things worse, because just like -
Tim - said, the Aperture App and all it's contents are not all of it, and there are all these related Aperture folders and files interspersed all around the rest of the bloody system, that need to be present for it to work. So, right now, unlike it did before, Aperture won't even attempt to open to that register screen I was getting before, but is just throwing up an error report that it wants to send to Apple. In that report it reads that it couldn't find some Frameworks folder, and I located that on my iMac and copied it to my thumb drive too and placed it where it belongs in the Air, but still same thing.
And again - I can't just simply use the physical media to re-install as I never had it and downloaded it from Apple directly... I think I will never do that again, to just eliminate these types of freakin' annoying situations!
So, I am going to clear yet again my Air and start from scratch and Migrate like I did initially to just get apparently every hidden flippin' thing that needs to be on the drive for it to work like it did before, and try that 2nd link suggestion from Corky, and if that fails then finally relent and call Apple Care!
This is my fourth Mac, and remember how much of a pain these migrations are, I sure wish they were a lot easier, and more able to be customized, like for example being able to pick and choose which Apps to migrate over, which folders, which files, instead of it just sending over every single bloody one whether I need and/or want it or not! I just want my Air to be Aperture, Photoshop, and my iTunes music, RapidWeaver, Fetch, and Text Wrangler, then Mail and Safari - and that is pretty much it, the Air is just going to be a working computer for my photography to get some stuff done on the road until i can get home and do the bulk on the iMac... I don't want or need anything else on it, so would be nice if I could just tailor the migration to just what it is I need, and all folders and files related to those things, and that's it, and not just do this bulk, mass migration of every single cotton-pickin' thing! I know you can do that to some limit, but again, all these stupid tie-in folders and files that may go with things, would be nice if the system would recognize and find and migrate those related files from within the system and leave the rest, as it is you either have to bring everything plus the kitchen sink, or not at all.
Okay, am done ranting in frustration!
Thanks again for your help guys... will get back to it when I have time, which is sparse... willl update here when I find a solution that works.
All the best to you,
JPH

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