My Aperture library(s) won't show up in System Preferences

I recently installed Aperture and started importing all my pictures into it. I would pick my desktop wallpaper through the Aperture library in the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane. I started up my Mac today and the Aperture Library showed up as an odd folder that looked similar to this:
DSKApertureRootSource-QZXCXCVVXCVXCVCXV_
I  hit the minus button and removed the folder thinking it would reload itself however I was clearly wrong. I can't seem to find a way to get Aperture back into the side pane of the wallpaper selections. My Aperture libraries won't show up, even ones I create. Anyone have any ideas? I've tried rebuilding the libraries, repairing permissions via Disk Utility and Aperture itself.
Thanks.

Okay so exporing images to a new library and then making sure share the previews with ilife preference was enabled seemed to bring back the functionality.

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