Library location problem

Hi everyone. This is my first post to the Aperture discussion and am currently using the trial now. I have a 250G OWC Neptune external hard drive I placed the Aperture Library in and all was working fine. I don't like to leave the ext. drive (or the computer) on when I'm away for an extended period of time so I drag the OWC icon to eject it, power off, then power down my iMac. What I have noticed is when I open up Aperture after that is the Aperture Library has moved to the Pictures folder on my iMac!!?? Am I doing something wrong? I set the location of the library in Aperture Prefs to reside in my Neptune ........ several times now. Aside from that I really like Aperture and see that it is a very powerful tool and am planning to purchase. Thanks in advance for any help!!!!
Mike
20" iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If Aperture doesn't find the Library when launched it will create an empty one in your pictures folder.
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HangTime,
HangTime wrote:
perhaps i'm overlooking a fine point that is important to you, but when i've accidentally added music to my local drive I just moved the files to my external, and then dropped them into iTunes.
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