Is there an easier way to load a MIDI file in Logic8?

Please, does anyone know how to import a MIDI file into Logic 8 withouthaving to manually reset all the instruments and sounds for each track? I have recently switched to a mac and want to perform along with the MIDI back-tracks I always use, but I don't know how to get Logic to do this w/o spending gobs of time assigning SW instruments for each track in every file (!!). Is there an easier way, or perhaps a better program to do this with? On my PC I can use a GM MIDI player that does this automatically. These are professionally made MIDI files with all program and channel settings built in.
Thanks.

Just use "import" & the sw insts' will load and assign accordingly, automatically.
But oddly, there are times when importing a SMF w/imbedded prgm changes, that LP8 loads a completely wrong instrument to a specific track(s).
One reason that I've kept only one of my trustworthy external midi modules (Roland XV5080), specifically for just importing SMFs'. When the XV is in GM mode, any standard midi files I import to LP8... always load pgm changes correctly 100% of the time.

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