Clone tool causing Aperture to freeze...

Has anyone else experienced Aperture 'freezing' when trying to use the clone tool on anything (it seems) other than a black background? When I try to erase extraneous background 'stuff' by cloning a black area, it works fine. But when I try to, say, clone an area of color in order to erase a black background, Aperture freezes (and stays that way until I force quit) for as long as twenty minutes, sometimes.
Am I missing a setting somewhere...?

I appreciate your response very much, but I have a hard time believing it is hardware or OS related, for many reasons...
1) It only happens when I am using the clone tool in a specific circumstance, and not across the board generally.
2) It doesn't happen when I use the other side of the clone tool, the repair tool, of which the only difference is a radio button and software; they're both in the same control window.
3) Something I neglected to mention in my first post was the behavior of the clone tool, when cloning a black background, accepting the first adjustment, but then claiming for the second adjustment that I hadn't option-clicked to define the point of cloning. It seems to happen every time I do this specific operation. All other adjustments, within that specific use of the clone tool, work as advertised; the second adjustment is the only one that can't remember what I selected for the first one.
4) SInce my first post, Aperture has begun to behave quite weirdly indeed. I have some pictures of a predominately pink-ish hue, that in making adjustments, all is well until I get to noise reduction. Then, upon adding noise reduction, the preview looks great but the browser view looks like a photo negative and the version export is a photo negative. It was only through investigation that I discovered what the offending adjustment was. So FAR, it has only happened to a few pictures, and others of the same predominate hue adjusted normally.
I don't understand what is going on, but it is disturbing, and I am becoming rather upset.
These problems are a relatively new occurrence, within the last week or so, and I can't have my editor of choice starting to go south on me, as I'm in the middle of a large batch of editing.
Has anyone else experienced these types of problems...?
William

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Thanks C,
(Sorry I don;t know your full name.
I followed your instructions and reset my preferences.
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image: Inline image 1
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:18 PM, c.pfaffenbichler <[email protected]

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