Installing Colour Profiles in Distiller

Hi All,
Just wondering if anyone knows how to install colour profiles in Distiller. I need to add a profile to the CMYK area of Working Spaces. I've added the profile to the ColorSync folder, so I was hoping that it would be there to click on when I went to edit the settings, but the profile doesn't show up. Is there something I've done wrong or a step I've missed?
Thanks for your help!

Two things:
1.— Did you reboot your Mac after installing the profile?
2.— Keep in mind that profiles have two names: an internal name and an external one.  What you see in the the Finder is the external name; what is displayed in Work Spaces is the internal name, so it may not be in the alphabetical order you expect and display as something completely different from its external name.
You can open the profile itself by launching the Color Sync utility and then you can see what the internal name so you can look it up in Distiller.
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