PSE 10 as Aperture 3 External Editor

Hi, im brand new to PSE 10 and have configured it as my external editor in Aperture 3. On my first try I have come up with 3 questions that im hoping someone will be able to help me with.
1. How do I get PSE 10 to work with the newest version of my image?
After editing the photo in PSE, it appears in Aperture as it is supposed to do. However - after further editing in Aperture then sending back again to PSE, it shows the first version i worked with in PSE...to the stage i left it at, and not the update edited version of the image in Aperture (hope thats clear)
2. How to prevent bleeding into other areas when using the healing brush?
The reason I had to go back into Aperture for further editing (described above) was because the healing brush in PSE 10 could not seem to detect edges properly and looked a bit of a mess. I was working on a portrait shot with a dark background & the outline of the person blended with the background. Is there any way to detect edges so this doesnt happen, some setting ive missed?
3. Can u unistall Organiser?
Im very happy with how Aperture organises everything and have no wish to use the organiser. Without even asking me, it copied all my photos into it (which im sure is taking up valuable disk space) Im wishing i had purchased the mac app store version now, which doesnt give you organiser. Is it possible to uninstall this?
Thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to help : )

Organizer never imports your photos on a mac unless you tell it to, and unless you import from iphoto it doesn't make copies when it does import. The actual disk space required is relatively small since organizer is just a database. You can't uninstall it unless you want to uninstall the editor, too. Just ignore it.
The healing brushes depend very much on the brush size. Don't use a bigger brush than you need. If the spot healing brush picks up areas you don't want, try the regular healing brush, where you option click to tell it where to sample for healing material. They are usually not a good choice at the edge of a high contrast area. Try the clone stamp there instead. Also, sometimes making a selection before you start with the healing brush can help to restrict it, but at the edge it may not give better results.
Your problem with aperture versioning is normal. Programs like aperture and organizer don't actually create new images when you change things--they keep a sort of set of instructions for their own use in recreating that state of the image when asked. You may find you need to export the image as a new file to get aperture to write those changes in a way that other programs can see, but I would ask this in the aperture forum at the apple support communities. (I don't use aperture, myself, so can't say exactly the best way.)

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