Still No Preferences Window in 1.1

Ok, so I had and read about the problem with the 1.01 update, the preference window won't open, wether you choose it from the menu or shortcut. So I went back to version 1.0. When I heard about 1.1 I eagerly awaited hoping this would be resolved. After the 1.1 update I still can't open my preferences window. And when I quit Aperture, the application quits, but I get that window that says "The application Aperture has quit unexpectedly". Does anyone know whats up with the updates and the preferences window? I'm real close to swithing back to iPhoto.
PowerBook G4, 10Gb iPod Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 Gb RAM

Hi,
Have you tried doing a clean install? Here are some things to try:
Cleaning Aperture off system:
Here are the things to delete manually:
1. Main Hard Drive>Library>Application Support>ProApps>Aperture System ID - (this will delete your serial number).
2. User's drive (Home)>Pictures>Aperture Library - (NOTE: Only delete if you want to start with a clean Library. You can always rename it or copy somewhere to launch a new library)
3. User's drive (Home)>Library>Application Support>Aperture - (Delete entire folder. This will get rid of your presets and keywords)
4. User's drive (Home)>Library>Caches>Aperture - (Delete entire folder)
5. User's drive (Home)>Library>Preferences>com.apple.Aperture.plist - (This is your general Preferences. I'd try this one first)

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From: David Wilton 07-Oct-05 01:08
Subject: How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
Hi,
We run an oracle 10g forms application through 9iAS over an intranet. All users are running windows 2000 professional.
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[email protected]
From: Andrew Lenton 07-Oct-05 08:58
Subject: Re : How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
I don't know if this is exactly what you are after but you can add the following to the top of your basejini.htm file and it should prompt the user before exiting the IE window.
<BODY %HTMLbodyAttrs%>
%HTMLbeforeForm%
<SCRIPT>

</SCRIPT>
From: Oracle, mohammed pasha 07-Oct-05 09:55
Subject: Re : How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
David,
Well I could not understand your complete requirement.
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From: David Wilton 07-Oct-05 14:37
Subject: Re : How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
Thank you for your reply and yes you did not understand my question fully.
Sorry if this is a long reply
I am able to close the browser window using information in notes 115905.1 and 201481.1, this is not the issue. We implemented this several years ago. It is workable for both separate frame = true or false.
It is most important to not allow the user to end their forms application by closing the windows browser, they must close using normal form exit commands.
What I want is to have separate frame = false, the big drawback to this option is the user can exit the application and bypass all forms code by pressing the windows "X" close button. This is why we need the code as just provided by Andrew Lenton above in this thread.
BUT Andrew's code will always prompt the user before closing the window and I do not want that. I want the user to be prompted only under scenario 2 listed below.
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All browser windows will close, great all is good. And without Andrew's code the window will close but with Andrew's code the user will be prompted to close or not, if they select Cancel the window will remain but the applet has already ended so why prompt? ...This is what I want to avoid.
2. In the forms app. if the user clicks the windows "X" close button with uncommitted changes. The browser just closes the changes are rollback without prompting the user to save. The users sessions are now lost and still running in the database and application server until they are timed out.
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Basejini.htm like
</HEAD>
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function maximizeWindow()
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window.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight);
function confirm(){
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Win.opener = self;
win.close();
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event.returnValue = "Closing Forms Application. OK to continue?";
</SCRIPT>
<BODY %HTMLbodyAttrs%, onload="maximizeWindow()", onbeforeunload="confirm()">
%HTMLbeforeForm%
I hope this explains my requirements.
David
From: Oracle, Evelene Raechel 10-Oct-05 06:45
Subject: Re : How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
Hi,
Note.199928.1 How to Alert User on Closing Client's Browser Window in Webforms
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From: David Wilton 11-Oct-05 17:40
Subject: Re : How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
I'm sorry this is not helpful at all.
Note 199928.1 is only an alert which does not stop the closing of the window and still displays as an alert if the user does close properly using exit form ... so why would you want to display the alert then?
This is exaclty what I do not want and why I want to determine if the applet is still running before displaying any kind of message.
David
From: Oracle, Evelene Raechel 17-Oct-05 12:23
Subject: Re : How to tell embedded jinitator applet is still running when window closed
Closing thread.
Thanks,

Hello,
I had the same issue last year - wanting to provide a warning on closing the browser, but only if the Forms session is still running. The approach I took is described below, see also the thread where I originally posted this at Closing brower window
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