Corrupted/broken Garageband Project - Help

I have a project that we recorded last Sunday. The pkg is 4.14 GB, has seven tracks, but when I open the project I only see GrandPiano (the default track) and nothing else and no audio there. (I should have said that we had to force GB to quit after a hang.) If I go into the pkg contents I find that the very first track will not open in anything. QT encounters an "end of file" and won't play it back. All the other tracks sound ok. So two questions: 1. Any way of repairing the munged .aiff file? 2. Any thoughts on how to get GB to display the tracks that are there? i.e. repair the project per se?

1. Any way of repairing the munged .aiff file?
no
2. Any thoughts on how to get GB to display the tracks that are there?
drop the AIFF files into the timeline of a new project

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Ok, either my question was too long or nobody seems to have an answer. Sad, either way
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When I open a garageband project in Logic 8, most of the audio tracks won't have sound, and when I create new audio tracks in those same projects, they also often don't have sound.
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