Logic pro 8 missing files

Hey all,
Seems like a lot of knowledge floating around these forums. How grateful I am to have access to such a great community! I have a quick question:
I just migrated from a macbook pro to an iMac. When setting up, using my external drive, my iMac attempted to migrate (hopefully I'm not using that term incorrectly) all my old apps over - including Logic 8. Problem is, some stuff is missing. So far, the only thing I've noticed (it's only been about a week, I haven't been using the program extensively) is that some instruments etc cannot be located. To try and solve this, I dragged and dropped all the jam packs I have from the external drive onto my hard disk, and even put them in Logic's folder. However, the program is still unable to locate these instruments, and even when the external drive is on, it doesn't load the instrument - it just indicates that the instrument is somewhere on the external drive.
I figured tomorrow I would just drag drop logic (my iMac has hardly much else on it) to the recycle bin and reinstall from scratch. However, I'm not sure if this is necessary. If I put the disks in, will it make duplicates (thereby wasting storage space) or would it selectively install whatever isn't already found on my iMac? I've seen an extensive list of files I would need to delete, and can do this (provided they all made it onto my iMac.
I was just wondering what would be the, obviously, quickest way to remedy these missing files. I'm still really inexperienced, as this is only my second mac computer, and the first one I've tried to bring old files/programs on to from my old computer.
Thanks for any suggestions!

Since you have the Logic Pro DVD's, I would just reinstall it on your iMac.However, if you want to see if there is another option that would work with Logic Pro, you might post your question in the Logic Pro dicussion here.

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