Media browser doesn't show Aperture but shows long-uninstalled iPhoto?!?

hi,
Now that 3.0.1 seems to have solved most of my problems I can finally concentrate on the details.
My media browser in iLife, iWork and mail.app gives me a choice between photos from Photo Booth and iPhoto. The weird thing is, when I select iPhoto it tells me that iPhoto 5 or higher should be installed, which it isn't as I haven't used iPhoto for years (and never on this computer). And, more importantly, Aperture is missing.
I have already deleted the iApps plist, restarted a couple of times, repaired permissions a quarter of a million times in the last few days, and none of it helped.
I know this is an issue that has popped up more often in this forum and for which a definite solution hasn't yet been found, but I'm hoping the iPhoto part may shine a new light on it allowing somebody smarter than I to solve this.
Thanks in advance. Oh, and thanks to the entire forum for what they did in the last few days. So many great tips and solutions were given by so many people.

This worked:
I created a new library by selecting >file, >>switch to library, >>>other, selected New Library. Then Quit Aperture (have to do this because it did not take until I quit). Restarted Aperture and switched back to my normal library.
Access to my Aperture library in the Media Browser came back right away. Desktop Background also returned. I had to restart the Mac to get the Screen Saver to come back.

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