Reinstalling Aperture on New Hard Drive (Downloaded Copy)

Hello,
I have an activated and legitimate copy of Aperture 2.1.2 (with serial number).
I will be installing a new hard drive into my Mac Pro at the weekend and doing a clean install of Leopard.
1) do I just download the trial version of Aperture and then enter my serial number to get the fully operational software?
2) how do I rebuild my library / projects so that my pictures / tags etc. are recovered? I have been maintaining a Vault of my pictures. Do I just switch the external hardrive that that Vault is stored on and 'ask' Aperture to rebuild my library?
Sorry of my terminology is less than correct / technically accurate!
And thank you for your time,
Adam

No, your reasoning is right on target. My comment about cloning was addressed more to the discussion with Wes, but I had sensed you were probably wanting a clean install. I did the same thing to create a boot volume where I freshly installed every pro application (for me that is Final Cut Studio apps, Photoshop CS3 and Aperture, plus some others) and got them up and running before adding still other applications. My other Leopard boot volumes were based upon having upgraded Tiger to Leopard, and when I got Aperture 2, I wanted to start fresh. I must say that with the boot volume that I had created by an upgrade of a clone of a Tiger boot volume, that Final Cut Pro and Photoshop had worked fine, and I still use that Leopard boot sometimes.
Ernie
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