Insufficient space on vault to back up library

I have a vault on an external 500Gb firewire drive, and aperture will not update as it says there is not enough space on the drive, although there is 100Gb free and the library is only 364Gb total, any ideas?
G5 Dual2ghz 4Gb Ram. Library on 500Gb Sata Ext Drive, Vault on 500Gb firewire drive.
G5 & MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

The problem is Aperture needs free space on the b/u hard drive to move images to that you deleted in the Library.
First thing to do is make sure you move the deleted images on the b/u drive to the trash and then empty the trash. Try synching now as this should open up more space if you've deleted images within Aperture.
If there is still not enough room you have 2 options.
The easy way is to purchase a larger hard drive or RAID 2 together to get a larger drive and backup onto that.
The other way is where things get fun.
You'll need to manually move things around in the Vault before you can backup.
Doing this comes with all of the usual "Do at your own Risk" stuff.
You'll need to do the following.
Quit Aperture.
Open the package contents of the Aperture Library.
Unlock the corresponding Aperture Vault. Open the package contents of the Vault. Open the Library folder within the Vault package.
Compare the Library package with the Library folder within the Vault.
Copy any new xxxx.approject to the exact same location in the Vault Library folder.
If you have deleted any Projects in the Library and you are sure you want them gone, delete them from the Vault Library folder and empty the trash.
Close both packages, restart Aperture and tell it to update the vault.
That should do it.

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