Keeping different versions in separate projects

When I duplicate a version or make a new one from a master it appears in the same project. After I have made some changes to the duplicate and want to safe this changed version in another project Aperture automatically moves the original with it. 
If I keep them in the original project it shows original and altered versions all together. I want to avoid this because I want to keep the changed versions in a separate project.
Working with albums doesn't seem to work because changes made when working on an image in an album are automatically visible in the image in the project
Any help is appreciated,
Rob

Album Picks are the feature you are missing.
Versions are simply text-instruction-based variations on the Master.  They are small -- so small that you should make as many as you need.  Aperture by default Stacks Versions in what it calls, with uncharacteristic directness, Version Stacks.  Each Stack in a Project has a Pick.  The Pick is the Image that shows when the Stack is collapsed.
Stacks in Albums have Picks as well.  These are Album Picks.  The Album Pick need not be the pick that shows when the Stack is collapsed in its Project.
To do what you want, create new Versions of Images, put them in a newly created Album, make each of them your Album Pick (this can be done automatically), collapse your Stacks, and then make your Adjustments.  You'll have a Stack in your Project with the original imported file showing as the Stack Pick, and in each album you'll have each of your adjusted Versions showing as the Album Pick.
The Stack stays together.  The Picks are container-specific.
RWBoyer has excellent information re: Stacks and Picks.  Search the forum, and take a look at his Web site.
If that doesn't help -- keep asking. 

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