GarageBand doesn't recognize all of my AU plugins?

GarageBand is a fantastic tool, and it is very useful to me when making music. However, I recently decided to try some additional sound modules (KontaktPlayer, Crystal, and Alchemy were a few) and effects (Amplitube 3 Free, AmpLion, etc), and this is where the troubles started.
The effects went just fine. I installed them and could access them in GarageBand. I had less luck with the sound modules, though. For each one, I downloaded the appropriate file/folder, followed the installation instructions contained in each one, and then checked GarageBand. Out of the dozen or so that I tried to install, only one -Alchemy- made it through. All the others, which had each said something like "Installation successfully completed", were not in the dropdown list of sound modules on my MIDI instrument channel.
I then tried to put the appropriate files in the right folder manually. I went in Finder -> my hard drive -> Library -> Audio -> Plug-Ins -> Components and then pasted in the .component files. This did not work.
What am I missing?  I have searched the Internet and found many "tutorials" on installing virtual instrumets- very few of them have anything beyond "download the file and it will appear in GarageBand as though 'twere magic" (which is clearly not the case here), and those that did go beyond that all told me to paste the .component files in the location where they are currently sitting, unheeded by GarageBand. Am I putting them in the wrong location? Am I downloading/copying/pasting the wrong files? Am I not using the right magic words?
Any help would be appreciated. I have been trying to make this work for days, to no avail.

Thanks for your feedback! That was the very first video I ran into, actually. The issue was that when I went into that dropdown list, some of the AU plugins I had downloaded were present, and some were not, even though I had them all installed and in the same folder. 
However, when I turned on my computer this morning and opened GarageBand, they were all there! Guess it just needed some time to find them. All's well that ends well!

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