Moved Files, then Installed iLife 06, GB3 takes FOREVER to open now- Help?

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Hi,
I just upgraded from GarageBand 2 to GarageBand 3. Previously, everything was on my start-up drive. When I upgraded, I moved all the files I could (loops and the like) to a media drive while keeping everything else on the start-up drive. Now, when I open GB3, it hangs and hangs, beach ball spinning, and the name of the application turns red in Activity Monitor, like it's frozen. But, it does eventually open up, after a minute or two, literally. It seems to hang when it starts loading the instruments used in the track. But it still does open and work fine! Well, not exactly fine, it also takes a lot longer than it used to to load a new instrument when I select a new one. Does anyone know what the issue may be?
Oh, and, I tried opening a file, then saving it as something different, then opening that new file, but it does the same thing.
Here's a bit more on exactly what I did that lead up to the problems--
I had iLife 05 that came with my computer. I was upgrading to iLife 06. Everything from iLife 05 was on my boot drive- that's how it came and I never changed it. I have a second drive that I use for media files (I edit video- all of those files, my itunes library, etc. is on this drive). Prior to upgrading, I wanted to move everything I could (loops and stuff like that) to the second drive. So, there's a point in the installation right before it actually installs everything- it tells you where it's going to put a bunch of folders, it gives you the path and lets you know you can put them somewhere else if you'd like (ex. "SuchAndSuch" Folder will be installed in /Library/Application Support/Garageband. If you want to, you can choose a different folder. (to paraphrase)). At this point (for each of the folders full of files that it was installing), I followed the path it gave, took the folder that was already there ("SuchAndSuch") and copied it to the second drive, I then deleted that original folder and redirected the installer to the new folder. I even duplicated the folder path, to make it easier for me to understand, so that for the example above, the new path was "SuchAndSuch" Folder will be installed in /MediaDrive/Library/Application Support/Garageband. I am certain I did this part correctly. I created the "Library", "Application Support", & "Garageband" folders-- I only actually moved that last folder and deleted it off the Boot Drive. Anyway, I was pretty sure all this was okay to do because I was only moving the original stuff it was telling me it would be updating or replacing... I hope this makes sense and might help to figure just where or where I went wrong.
I suspect there may be some small file(s) that I moved to the second drive that really should be on the boot drive- some sort of files that act as a map or something for garageband. Maybe an invisible file? ...I hate those invisible files.
**Oh wait!** I just remembered something, when I was copying those folders (like I was saying above), it did prompt me for my admin name and password! So, wouldn't that mean I was moving something, well, important? Instead of just the loops and stuff?
Let's see... other info-- I have 4.5 GB RAM, Both drives are internal, 7200 RPM. The media drive is the fuller of the two at barely over 50% capacity. I did repair permissions after the intallation. Everything else runs fine on both drives.
Anyone know what I did that messed GarageBand up? And how I may be able to fix it?
Thanks everyone!
William
Quad. 30" display.   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

Answer 1

**Oh wait!** I just remembered something, when I was copying those folders (like I was saying above), it did prompt me for my admin name and password! So, wouldn't that mean I was moving something, well, important? Instead of just the loops and stuff?
That's exactly what that means. If you don't have enough space on your hard drive to store all the Garageband data, either burn off to CD and DVD data you don't use frequently that belongs to you, or get a larger hard drive. You should be careful only to move files and folders which belong to you and were not installed by something else (some applications may be moved from the Applications folder, but remember they frequently may need to be returned if you update them) as my FAQ here explains:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121899
If you know what you moved and the permissions of what you moved, I'd move it back. And then repair permissions with Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility. Otherwise you may be forced to locate that which is critical to you in what you moved, and back it up first elsewhere, and then remove and reinstall Garageband. Someone in the Garageband forum may better know what's critical for Garageband to operate.