Leopard tells me me Mac Pro does not meet requirements. Help.

I have just acquired a Mac Pro (2 750 GB Hard drives, 8 ram) and when I try to open Aperture 1.5.6 (Time Machine taken care of well in advance) I get the message:
"Your computer does meet the minimum hardware requirements for Aperture."
I have deleted and restored Aperture and continue to get the same message.
What gives? What can I do?
{Personally I think this Leopard is a bust. Took four hours before I could even log in [Finally got the Apple Pages update for this problem — password more than 8 characters]).
Thank you for any advice.
Susan

I just purchased a Mac Pro 2X3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 2 750 HD and 4 GB 667 MHz and I tried installing my original Aperture Install disk and get a message that the machine does not meet the minimum hardware requirements. Then I check the requirements and it meets the Graphics card requirement with a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT. I don't get it. It's not terribly important because it's my wife's new Mac and she doesn't use Aperture I'm trying to convince her away from LightBox. Any suggestions.

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