Recently, Aperture has been giving me a big white partial box over the main viewer when I zoom in and edit...

I have been using Aperture 3.3.2
It is an 8 month old Mac Book Pro running OS X, and Aperture is about the only thing I use it for. The retouch feature used to be SOOO PAINFULLY SLOW that I took it into the Mac store, and they had to reformat my harddrive & reload everything.. That was due to my PC indexing everything and wouldn't stop. Took a lot of RAM.  Maybe this is due to the cup of coffee I spilled over my MacBook a few months ago? I really haven't wanted to admit it, but OK WORLD, IT HAPPENED!
Also, it is crashing a lot when I am editing. Any ideas?

You need to confirm that your hardware is properly functioning.  They can do this at an Apple store.  Have them check the memory and the drive(s), and ask them to check the CPU/GPU (I don't know if they can).
Once you know that your hardware is good, move on to trouble-shooting your set-up and software. 
How much RAM do you have installed?  How much free space in on your system drive?  Run Safari for a while and see if you have any trouble there.
The white box is (afaik) likely an artifact of your mouse/trackpad cursor.  You shoudn't see it.

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