Restarting/Resetting the Aperture Trial

Hi all,
Back in August I bought a MacBook Pro which came loaded with a trial version of Aperture. Through reasons which may have been accident or my own stupidity, I ended up starting the 30-day trial. Unfortunately I then went on my honeymoon to New Zealand for over a month. So life has settled down, and I'm ready to go through the 6000+ photos I took while in New Zealand, and I now find a need to evaluate Aperture - I wouldn't be a power user (yet) but iPhoto just doesn't cut it for me.
I tried downloading a new trial key, however it won't allow me to start a new trial - which I guess is the whole point. I've phoned after-sales about it and they were unhelpful. However last night I had a call from Apple asking me how my new MBP was working out, and I mentioned this issue. So the guy suggested I check with the Apple Discussions site. I've followed the advice in this post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5130341 but removing the license key file doesn't seem to help me out.
So I write here in the hope that someone may have more advice for me - I really want to try this software out! Is there something I missed in the original post (for example the name of the license key file - maybe it was discretion that led the other poster to not mention it directly so I'll try to be discrete too!)
Many thanks,
Maurice Kelly

When yu did the update from Lepoard to Snow Lepoard did you do a clean install of the OS or did you update in place? As long as you did not do a clean install then the upgarde wouldnot have touched any user files.
You keep mentioning external drives, plural, how many are there? You wrote then when she was traveling she would import to the MBP's Aperture library and then mention finding many of thede images on extenal disks. Did she have a disk(s) with her when she traveled?
Then you mention an Aperture Trial library, why? If she has been using Aperture for years why now is there a trial library? How did you update Aperture and when did you update it?
Again by default the trial library (and anyother librsry Aperture creates) goes in the users Picture folder unless you tell Aperture to place it elsewhere.
How did you search for the libraries? If you open Aperture anf go to File->Switch to Library; Other/New you get a list of libraries Aperture knows about, did you check all those?
Is it possible you have two versions of Aperture on your system? If so the other version might have been what your wife was using when she imported and it knoes where the library is.

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