Garageband won't open saved projects

I recently installed Snow Leopard (10.6.7) on my MacBook Pro. I then downloaded Garageband 11 from the App store.
Today I went to open a Garageband project, and when I go to "file-open" all the projects are listed but will not open. I can open projects from the Recent Projects list. But nothing else. I can't even select them.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks for the ideas, tried both repairing permissions and trashing preferences. Didn't fix it, but now my "recent projects" folder is empty--not unexpected, and as I said, I can still get files by opening up the folder in the hard drive. But this is a problem. I know that when I installed GB11 I tried a couple old files and they worked fine then, so I don't think it's because I upgraded. I did recently add a new account to the system, but I am logged in under my regular account. ???

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