Missing *.icc profiles

Hallo,
I've a question to *.icc Profiles and Adobe Lightroom 3.5. I saved 10 *icc profiles for different types of printing (for example on acrylglas, different photo papers, on aluminium) wich I got from an online printing service. But if I want to select a specific profile for an jpeg export I just got a selection of 6 profiles; 4 profiles are not shown. Any idea why?
With kind regards
F. Oerters

Thanks for Your reply.
I checked the directory - all correct. No profiles under "include" display profiles2
I took another look at the *.icc files - the four missing files are the biggest ones; all 1.830 kb. All other files's size is max. 1.449 kb. Maybe this is the reason that the files are not shown by LR 3.5; maybe they are just to big ?
When I take a look at the "More like this" Section on this webside - Missing printing profiles seems to be an known problem in LR and PS ?
Frank
P.S. (one minute later...)
Searching the forum I found this for a similiar question:
"Those are probably cmyk profiles. Lightroom only supports RGB profiles."
I looked at the details of the *.icc profiles and really all the four missing profiles are uses the CYMK Gamut.
I think that's the reason.

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