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I formatted my iMac 20" and did a custom install... I deselected some of the extras (omnioutliner, iwork trial, office test drive, etc). I had deselected the entire extras category at first and then selected one-by-one the applications I wanted such as Photobooth, iPhoto, etc. The entire iLife suite was unselected and then I selected I believe it was iWeb first and it automatically selected the rest of the iLife suite for me (which I thought was fine because I wanted all of those things installed).
I run through the installation... and now none of the iLife things are there EXCEPT iWeb... the auto-selection during the customization was a trick... even though it checked them off automatically, it didn't really install them. Total "My Bad" on Apple's part there!
Now I have to format that 250GB sucker again and re-do all this.... Sigh.

I have 22 years of experience with Mac OS installers scattered over 7 different Macintosh computers.
I have inserted my Install DVD and recreated the steps you took.
1. You did not need to reformat and reinstall a second time. You could have only installed the other iLife programs that you wished to add to your current installation by doing a 2nd custom install and only selecting the additional iLife programs you wanted.
2. Perhaps a lesson for us all in really watching what is happening. When I recreated the steps that you took in your initial install I noticed something that you didn't. iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD are each large individual installations of 197 MB, 465 MB and 1.8 GB respectively. However, they are intimately integrated and the installation of one requires a small amount of something from the other to complete the install. The installer is not intuitive, you selected a custom install and only selected iWeb. The installer doesn't know that the other parts of iLife are not already installed and followed your instructions to ONLY install iWeb and the small parts of the other three that allow them to integrate. If you had watched, when you clicked to install iWeb and the installer added the other three programs to the installation, the size of the installations for those three also changed to only 408 KB, the integrated parts.

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