Uploading from Aperture

Hello.
I went from PC to MAC 8 months ago and I am as happy as can be. I used iPhoto for the first six months and really liked it. Not wanting to spend a whole lot of money and buy Photoshop for the Mac (only have pc license and the Photoshop I have is pretty old any way) I decided to buy Aperture back in November.
Transferring files from iPhoto to Aperture was not as easy as apple said it would be, but I solved all the problems and all 16.000+ images are now in Aperture, with all the information I had added, places, faces and what have you. One thing I miss from iPhoto is the fabulous ways of emailing my photos.
I use ipernity.com for some of my shots and suddenly I have a problem when I want to upload. I upload some family shots to facebook and use the facebook button, no problems. I have had no problems uploading to ipernity, but suddenly Aperture does not appear on the list, only iPhoto and Photo Booth (the same goes for my blog on blogspot). Uploading this screenshot meant exporting it to the desktop and then upload it. Aperture used to be there, first in line, but no more. I have tried to find out why this happened, but had to give up. To my knowledge, I did not change any settings, but who knows.....
Hope someone can help. Thank you!
Uploading

Check your Aperture->Preferences->Previews settings. The Share previews wirh iLife and iWorks needs to be something other than never.
If that doesn't rsolve the problem post back and include your OS and Aperture versions.
regards

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