Library needs daily rebuilding?

My Library started acting funny a few weeks ago, and rebuilding and trashing the preferences seemed to fix the weirdness.
Now, adding images to projects, making smart albums and changing ratings (pretty much all I use Aperture for) doesn't work consistently. Quitting or Force Quitting will bring the particular image or album back, but eventually I need to rebuild the library to make Aperture work properly.
If I use Aperture more than a few hours, I need to rebuild. Other Apple programs run fine (Mail, iTunes, Safari) and I've no problem with the other applications I use (PS and Illustrator CS3.)
Any thoughts?
55,000 images, 25 GB Library size, 10.4.11, Aperture 2.1, 16 GB RAM, Mac Pro 2.66, Library is kept on a 6TB external RAID.

One more thing to add - I ran the "Consistency Check" on the library a few weeks ago too. It seemed to crash Aperture the first few times I tried it; I would Force Quit after a couple of hours. I wasn't sure, so I let it run over the weekend, from Friday night to Monday morning, and it never made any progress.

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Option 1
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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