ICC Printer Profiles Disappearing

I have OSX in a Mac Pro, and use Photoshop CS4. When printing, I cannot find the Epson 4000 profiles which I used with a prior PC. When I go to the ColorSync Utility, it does not show any of these profiles, though my application of Lightroom 2 does show the Epson Profiles. Does the OSX operating system keep the profiles in another place, and why would they have disappeared from the Photoshop printing module?

The Epson 4000 profiles do not get installed into the normal Profiles folder. Not from the OS X disks or even from Epson's own download. But they are on the hard drive. Go to:
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/PrintingModule/
Right click on the file "SPro4000_Core.plugin". Choose "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu that appears. Open the folders /Contents/Resources/ICCProfiles/.
You'll find all of the supplied profiles in that folder. Copy them to the /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ folder.

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