Onscreen Proofing Profiles Missing

"Aperture provides several dozen profiles that match the characteristics of many printers, screen devices, and color spaces." according to the bottom of page 125 in the online manual. However, the only profiles I have listed in Aperture's View/Proofing Profile menu are ones provided with the OS and others I have installed in Library/Colorsync/Profiles. So, how do I get these "dozens of profiles" to appear? My original install was Aperture 1.1 to a MacBook Pro 2GHz 15" running OS 10.4.5. I'm currently running Aperture 1.1.2 in OS 10.4.7.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ken Seibert

This is a well-document bug.
If you do a search through the proofing threads, you will find a simlar thread to this.
Fortunately, I have provided a temporary solution to this bug. It seems as though Aperture does not like profiles that are set to the "display" class. In order to have Aperture use the profile correctly, you must manually change the profile that is giving you trouble, i.e. sRGB from "display" class to "output" class. Once this is done, Aperture will show images correctly when using it as a proof.
Be sure to duplicate the profile that you wish to change and rename it, i.e. web-proofing or something to that effect.
You can download the software to change the profile class from fuji film as they have a demonstration package that you can use temporarily to do this.
Good luck.

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I attach some screens so u can check out the problem.
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http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9680/imagen5it.png
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http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9055/imagen6lr.png
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