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As you've probably noticed by now, Apple's Aperture 2 trial does not convert your Aperture 1.5 library. They do this because it is a one way conversion and if you opt not to buy the upgrade, you cannot switch back or otherwise use your current Aperture 1.5 to open the library. But what good is a demo without photos to use with it? Well, you could just import a handful oh photos you've got, but one of the biggest reasons to upgrade is Aperture 2 is supposed to be worlds faster. The only way to really see this is to load your entire library in Aperture 2 and give it a whirl.
First, close Aperture 1.5, rename it so something like Old Aperture, download the Aperture 2 demo, and install it. Navigate in Finder to your library and view the package contents (don't double click it, that will just try to open it in Aperture). See all those projects in there? Move them out of there, someplace else, temporarily. Now open Aperture 2; it will probably tell you it can't convert your library and ask if you want to create a trial library. Agree and name your new library. Next, go to File, Import then Projects. Select all those projects in that temporary holding place. This will take a while. No, really.
The bad news is, this won't work if you've got a 100 GB library and only 50 GB of free space. You can always buy Aperture 2 and then it will convert it for you, and rather quickly at that. The good news is, you can move those projects back into the old Aperture 1.5 library package and there's all your stuff, just as it was before this entire Aperture 2 brouhaha.
Don't forget that this doesn't change you from RAW decoder 1.1 to RAW decoder 2.0. There's a pretty nifty way to migrate your images selectively to RAW 2.0 to handle that. You get the (supposedly) better image quality and lens metadata as well.
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