Help! can't open old projects in new version !

Hi, I'm new here.
I have a major problem since I upgraded from panther to leopard and installed I-life 08
the version of garage band I had prior to upgrade was VERY old, 1.0 or 1.1 I think !
I stored all the songs from the old garageband (29 of them) on a memory stick, and then upgraded. I tried to open the songs in the new garageband, and only five or so were converted to the new format, the rest won't open at all.
this is a real problem as I don't want to recreate 9 months work !
any help at all would be gratefully appreciated as I'm at my wits end!
thanks..

Anyone ? !!!!

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