HELP - Aperture 3.0.2 brushes are now slllooooowww

I should have known better...
After working somewhat flawlessly, I am now running at a snails pace. When I am reviewing images, everytime I switch to a different image, the "loading" symbol comes up to re-load the image. It's worse when I apply a brush. Each time I click a brush on the photo, I am waiting more than 5-10 seconds for it to recover.
- Checked HD, have 200GB left;
- Available RAM is still 4-6GB;
- I have rebuilt the database
HELP!!

I have had the same slow problems with brushes - especially using the 'Z' zoom. So, I was pleased to see this thread last night as I was not certain you could delete thumbnails.
Deleting Thumbnails does reduce Folder size dramatically (for me from 6.53GB down to 2.4GB)
Mine were 6.53 Gb for a 500 + GB Managed Library. I deleted the thumbnails and left it to rebuild overnight - it took 10 hours for 7,400 images (masters of which are between 60 - 120 MB in size)
But, beware! The 'problem' then was HUGE fragmentation. iDefrag showed >7,500 fragments! The good news is that I have just been able to reduce this to 287 with one pass of iDefrag using their Quick on line - and then down to ZERO with a second pass! The library has just opened up and seems Ok and quite snappy. Not yet done any tests re brushes though.
Would like to hear Matthew's view on whether the same delete and rebuild should/could be done for Previews - and whether his choice is still for quality 7 for these?
Also, is this 'good practice' to do all this - or could it make problems down the line? I just do not know!
One final "bummer" - when I tried to do a Smart Update using Suer Duper, from the library with the new, smaller, thumbnails to a backup drive - all the Masters were lost on the backup! It had smart updated the thumbnails but somehow dumped the Masters. These should not have been touched?
Will now have to make a Finder copy of the whole library tonight.

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