Help! cannot boot garage band

i had installed ilife 06 and of course it came with garageband but somehow it got deleted. i just purchased ilife 08 and everything is cool except garage band ..it staes the following
: the instrument library is invalid...garageband expect a valid library....
what can i do? please let me know
i do not have the start up disk for this computer as i bought it refurbished and they did not send it along

thanks but i'm not sure what to do
when i try to run gb it states
The Instrument Library is invalid. GarageBand expects a valid Instrument Library folder in /Library/Application Support/GarageBand.
Please choose a valid Instrument Library folder or quit and re-install GarageBand.
i don't see the links you suggested

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