Where is my library or did I miss something?

I am very new to Aperture. I am running it on my laptop which only has an 80 gig hard drive. I decided to try and keep the Aperture Library on a mobile 100 gig FW drive. When I installled Aperture I thought that I had moved the Library to this drive as a file Aperture Library does reside there. I imported my iPhoto library and then imported some RAW files from my Nikon D50. I quit Aperture but went bck to it later and all photos were present. When I started Aperture today I was back to square one. None of the iPhoto library pictures or the photos from my D50 were present. When I tried to access the mobile drive I was told that there were no images on it even though I can open Aperture from the Aperture Library file which resides there. I read that I can have my library somewhere other that the system disk. Did I miss a step?

I think that I solved my own problem. I checked the preferences in Aperture and it had defaulted back to the original Aperture Library on the system disk. I chaged it back to the one on my mobile drive and all is well. I beleive that this happened as the mobile drive was not plugged in when I first started Aperture. Can I delete the Aperture Libray on my laptops hard disk?

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Rather than try to cover each individual point as you brought them up, let me summarize the situation by enumerating your options.
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