Exporting Band In A Box Midi drums to Logic

I am trying to export Band In A Box midi to Logic Pro. I did the export, then imported the midi into Logic and I could define reasonable instruments, except for the drums, which were totally garbled and the midi note assignments simply didn't match anyting expected. But, the exported midi file plays fine in the Quicktime player, so I decided to try the Quicktime Instruments profile. This seems to work, but it's VERY quirky, with instruments seeming to change inexplicably. For example, the acoustic bass turns into a piano. It just seems buggy. I've had the piano inexplicably change to a synth too. There doesn't seem to be a way to reset it to the piano instrument when this happens.
But, the better way may be to figure out how to map the drum sounds correctly into a regular Logic drum kit synth.
Anybody have any ideas how to solve this?
Thanks.

make sure the midi track you are going to import to has the 'no transpose' switched checked. Otherwise, Logic will sometimes try to transpose according to the chords in a song...
I'm not clear why this still happens sometimes. But turning the no transpose switch on should work. Make sure your using a GM drum instrument. All the ones that come in EXP are GM.

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