How to stop aperture from looking for mobile me?

I can't access the preferences. It is stuck on Web and keeps looking for mobile me galleries eventhough I've disabled mobile me under File > Web Accounts. I've also disabled Facebook... I can't deselct the automatically check for albums check box.... I just get a spinning wheel and can't select any other preference tabs.

There are 10-15 threads here in this forum with solutions for this... have a read.
i.e. here's one: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4126429?tstart=0

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Step 1
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