I broke my iDVD, what do I do now?

Hello,
I installed iLife '06 and there were no NEW themes in the iDVD program (see my other post). Anyway, I tried reloading the iLife program, and now there are NO THEMES! None whatsoever, not even the older themes.
What do I do now? I am considering completely re-installing my computer. I save most of my material to an external HD, so it would not be a problem to completely erase the internal HD and start over -- Fresh.
But, I don't know how to do this, and I don't really know if this is a good idea, or if this is even necessary? I would prefer to find an easy solution, but I really want my iDVD themes back. I wish I had not tried to upgrade to iLIFE 06, everything was working fine with iDVD. I wanted to use the new themes, but now I don't have any themes and I would be happy just to get my older themes back (5.0 themes, 4.0 themes, and older themes).
If anyone has any ideas that could help me I would appreciate your comments.
Lincoln
PS: I have all of my original OSX software that came with my computer (Jaguar), as well as the X.3.0 upgrade software (Panther), and all of the iLife packages up to '06. ('03, '04, '05 and '06).

Hello again. I discussed this problem with you when you posted the same question earlier. I see that you decided not to take your computer into an Apple store where an Apple "genius" could address the issue hands on.
I've done some reading and found that your issue has come up before. Below is an excerpt from an article by an expert, Matti Haveri, that you might find of some interest.
"BTW, as a habit I installed iLife 06 first on a test partition (I do this with any suspicious software...). iLife 06 install went without errors but iDVD 6 refused to open at all because it didn't find any themes. I tried to re-install iDVD (as the iDVD error message told me) or search the HD for any iDVD related "theme"s but it didn't help. No themes anywhere on the HD (at least the Finder search didn't find any -- apparently some old themes were inside application packages). THE fix for me was to delete or move /Library/Application Support/iDVD -folder to another location (apparently it contained iDVD 4 Tutorial with children making a snowman). I hope this helps someone with a similar error."
You said in your previous post that you are not super experienced with computers. Therefore, I repeat my suggestion that you take your computer in to an Apple "genius" and show him/her the above excerpt, tell him/her what you have done so far, and let the "genius" handle it. As I said before, addressing these problems by remote can be difficult.
Good luck in solving your problem.

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