Constant crash with managed library on external drive

I have never had a problem until lion installation.
I have been through the basic steps repaired and reconstructed library
reinstalled aperture with update
repaired disk with utility from lion
repaired permissions
deleted plist
cussed and repented
It loads most of the images into a preview while it continues to process for a long time before crashing. It looks like a couple of the images on the events are messed up. I don't know if there are some corrupt images. There wasn't a problem before lion took over? I don't know whether to load aperture on my laptop and try to access with snow leopard or what. I don't know if I get lightroom if i can transfer over? frustrated as ****

I have been using a Gsafe 2tb mirrored hard drive via firewire for the library. I haven't had any problems since I have been using aperture. Did well with aperture update with snow leopard. Just after did lion where problem started. I also deleted FC express since I heard that could cause problems also
I have imac 2.8 intel core i5
4gb 1333 ddr3
ati radeon hd 5750 graphics
I have a library of 192 gb on the gtech gsafe with over 1tb free
I don't even know where to see how much free space I have internally now with finder changing but I should have 500gb or so.
Thanks for any help you can offer

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