Library problem?? HELP!!

My Aperture Library seems to be acting up. I have several weddings on an external drive. Today, I opened Aperture to do some work and the last project I was working on popped right up with no troubles, however if I try to select another project, Aperture locks up. It does not respond and I have to Force Quit. I have scanned both my hard drive and the external drive, but no problems are present. I found the Aperture Library repair utility and ran the Consistency Check, but it hangs as well. The only other option I see is to rebuild the library using this same tool.
Does anyone have a suggestion to check before I rebuild this library? Will rebuilding this library destroy all the edits I have made?

Try the rebuild. I have used it a couple of times and it seems to deal with issues that repair can't. I have never seen it get rid of edits or anything else for that matter.
RB

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