How do I transform/skew/change perspective of a photo

Sorry, not quite sure of the correct terminology
I have a load of images that were created with a camera on a tripod, pointing down at the original 10x8 prints.
Unfortunately, the film plane and print place holder were not 100 % parallel to each other.
I think it was in Photoshop on my Windows machine I I used to be able to Edit | Transform | Skew or Free transform something like that.
I cant seem to find it in Aperture, but that could be because I am searching for the incorrect terms in the help.
I do have a copy of PS here on the Mac, but for some reason the Transform options are greyed out...using jpeg images....single layer un edited directly out of the camera.
If I cant do this in Aperture, any PS experts here that can tell me why the options are greyed out.
If it comes to it I can always go back to my Virtual XP install, but I would really like to do it all on the Mac, now I have spent all this money on it. If I gotta go back to XP to do this, it feels like I have wasted money on the Mac.
Thanks
Neil

Right thanks for all of that.
The content did really need to look true and square. A lot of the content was things like old advertising papperwork, artwork etc pictured alongside other stuff. So it really needed to look square.
I too was a little uneasy about using iPhoto, not being suere quite what it was doing, so started with the first frame again and did the complete lot again in PS using Bridge to choose the images from. The longest part of the workflow was saving the images back in JPEG, because of the nag screens..."Are you sure you want to replace?" 'This Image has not been saved, save now' Created an automatic action for that task and all was plain sailing after that.
Would have loved to use Aperture, but last night was not the time to start experimenting. Will have a play again in the next few days, see if I can find this 'Crop in Perspective' you talk about Ernie. Am at 'real work ' now. Will take a peak at the link yo gave later.
Thanks again for the quick reaponses to h=this amateurs crisis
Neil

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