Garageband 10 won't play my old garageband files correctly

My previous computer broke, but I had all my garageband 6 files on external HD. So when I got my new computer, it came with the new garageband. Ok, no problem. But when I open up my garageband files into the new version, nothing but the piano instrument (and a couple of other basic instruments) work. But my drunm kits, strings, and other things don't because this garageband seemed to have cleaned house and gotten rid of a ton of instruments (and replaced them with a couple crappy ones). I also had the Jam packs. So my question is this - is there anyway to get the old instruments from garageband 6 over to the new one, or, is there a way I can just re-install the old garageband, as I found it's interface to be cleaner?

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That will download several GB of additional instruments and loops.    But quite a few sounds and loops will still be missing, if you previously had GarageBand 6.0.5  and the Jam Packs.  Do you still have the installer DVDs for GarageBand and the Jam packs? Then reinstall from the original media. To install the Jam Packs on Yosemite, see the FAQ:  http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/FAQPages/InstallJamPack10.7.html
Some JamPack installers use PowerPC code and do not run directly on Yosemite, so you need the work-around described in the FAQ.
If you still have an backup of your old Mac, you could also simply migrate the missing files from the Instrument Library and the loop library to your new mac.
The instruments are installed in the folder     /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/
The loops are installed in /Library/Audio/

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