Restoring photos with all adjustments maintained to new mac

I recently got a new iMac i7 with Snow Leopard so I installed Aperture 2 on it and upgraded it to the latest release 2.1.4
I backed up all the photos from Aperture 1.5.6 running on my G5 to a vault on an external HDD and then restored the vault on Aperture 2.1.4 using the Vault --> Restore-Library option.
All my photos appear to be present but none of the adjustments I had made to the RAW files (from a Canon 40D) appear.
How can I restore my Aperture Library on my new mac with all the adjustments intact?
Thanks

For information, I have resolved this problem.
Aperture libraries between 1 and 2 are not compatible. If you back up a library to the vault in Aperture 1.5.6 as I did, it does not restore everything in Aperture 2.1.4 only the masters, no versions.
The way I solved this was to upgrade Aperture 1.5.6 on my G5 to Aperture 2.1.4 Then backup the library to the vault on my external drive. Then restore the vault on my external drive to Aperture 2.1.4 running on my new intel mac.
This seems to have worked well and all my versions with adjustments are now present.
Apple really should document this as a lot of people on G5s were waiting to get an intel mac before upgrading Aperture. If the new version of Aperture is 64-bit (10.5 and up, no tiger support) then even more PowerPC users running Aperture 1.5.6 will get caught out when they get a new mac and upgrade Aperture.

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