Missing All My IDVD Themes

I've read the previous posts on this and tried "Pacifist" on my original OS X.2 disk plus ILife 4 disk (Can't find 10.4 disk right now). When I opened IDVD 5 for the first time it said I had no themes and should reinstall. I do have a 2 year old who gets a little "mouse happy" he could have deleted the themes folder because I can't find one. I cant even find IDVD listed on my install disk and the Ilife 4 custom install doesn't seem to let me just select "Themes". My only option at this point seems to be to revert back to IDVD 4. At least until I can find the 5 disk(two year old). Any suggestions?

Hi Lance,
From reading at the start of your 1st post in this thread . It sounds like you may have corrupted some things that related to iDVD rather than your 2-year old actually deleted the themes since iDVD themes are imbedded inside the iDVD application package itself, even some adults couldn't find them.
A complete reinstallation is a good idea. As you said, before the reinstallation, you do need to get rid of iDVD 5 and also everything containing the iDVD name in the /Library/Receipts/ folder. Since you just want to reinstall iDVD only, depending on the install discs you have, some bundled software discs are packaged differently, you may be able to use the custom install option of the install disc, if not, then you have to use the Pacifist application to do the custom install, usually iDVD.mpkg is what you want to find and install. As you going through each up version, the installation script always looks at the default Applications folder during the upgrade, don't move the iDVD application to anywhere.

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