GarageBand and Garritan Libraries (GPO, GJBB)?

Hi all,
I recently purchased Garritan Personal Orchestra and Garritan Jazz and Big Band along with Finale 2006, and am attempting to integrate them with GarageBand. The help section that covers this topic gave me pretty vague instructions, and I was unable to make it work.
Does anyone use Garritan Libraries (or any other soundfont) with GarageBand? If so, could you instruct me on how to integrate them with GarageBand?
Thanks,
Thomas
MacBook 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Software: Finale 2006d, Transcribe! 7.30, GarageBand 3; Hardware: 4GB iPod Mini, iTrip

This thread is the answer to my similar question about adding soundfont voices to GB.
My understanding is that you need a shareware utility called Soundfont Synth. But read the following linked thread as there are some details of note. And follow all the links in the thread.
I was dealing with generic soundfonts downloadable in the public domain. I can only guess that your's will work similarly. But I don't know for sure.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=556451&tstart=0
Good luck.

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