Lost Aperture serial number after Leopard install

Installed Leopard yesterday with Archive and Install option.
Went to run Aperture today, got prompt for serial number and, unfortunately, I cannot find the paper copy to re-enter it. Last update to Aperture puts it at 1.5.6. Can the file with the serial number be found somewhere in the Previous System folder? A number of Apple products, Aperture among them, are empty folders in the Application Folder in Previous System.
My Aperture Library is in the Pictures folder of my boot disk, and plainly shows. Selecting that file does start Aperture, which then prompts for the serial number.

The updater is looking for the app in the Applications folder. It must be there, not renamed and not in a subfolder. Can you post a small picture/screen shot of your Applications folder where Aperture is?
If you aren't presented with the update automatiacally in SW Update, then that suggests that you don't have the app in the right place/or named right. This is a problem for some folks everytime there is an update - they renamed it or moved it and forgot they did that. If you download the manual update from the apple support pages, it won't update either unless it finds it in the right place - the same place the auto update is looking for it actually.
And I was referring to being able to drag a file into this directory:
/Library/Application Support/ProApps/
That is the folder that must have the right permissions. If you can't drag into it, the app won't be able to save the serial file there.

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