Missing Aperture Built-in Adjustment Presets

Hello,
Just installed Aperture 3.5.1 when i go and try editing with adjustment presets I find that all the built-in presets are missing.I can not figure how to bring them back..those were handy tools as advertised by Apple on web site..very disappointed.Please help me.Here is the screenshot of the effects menu.

Delete Aperture from the Applications folder (but don't empty the Trash), then download it again from the Purchased tab of the AppStore. Probably the download was incomplete.

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