IDVD 5 and LOSS of older themes

I've seen some things floating around here about lost themes. Have tried most of them without success.
My issue: I upgraded to Tiger. Then decided to wipe the drive and start over. Copied Users data over to second drive and brought back across after the reinstall.
1. I had previously installed iLife04 and upgraded to iLife05
2. After the wipe and reinstall of the OS, I had to reinstall iLife05. I opened up a recently created DVD and had used a 3.0 theme (never having iLife03) with the error "cannot find theme - family"
Actually, none of the 3.0 themes are available.
I've trashed 05, reinstalled 04, upgraded to 05, updated 05 and still, no 3.0
themes.
THEY HAVE TO BE SOMEWHERE!
Still have the old "Users" data on the second drive, hoping that something is there for me to get these themes back.
Any help would be appreciated.
dan

Hi Daniel:
Have you read these?
iDVD 5: Previous themes are missing
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301881
iDVD: Which themes are included
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302928
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