No Garage Band Loops are installing

Hope you guys can help me. I have installed iLife and have been attempting to use Garageband. Certain looping elements seem to work - but the Drum, Piano, Bass and Guitar loops do not seem to install. I have done multiple reinstalls and the Loops just don’t seem to be there. I DO have all of the single note samples of instruments, Sounds and Jingles and Garageband Demos.
I have read the previous posts about deleting the Apple Loops Index and then dropping the folders of the loops into the browser – but I think my problem is different: I have gone through the video tutorials and noted the names of some of the drum and bass loops that they used and then I’ve done a search in my computer for those loops after installing iLife. Names like 70’s Ballad Piano, 80’s Pop Beat and 80’s Dance Bass do not exist. I have done a search for AIF files and there are 3185 AIF files in my computer.
As I was about to try yet another installation, I decided to try installing just the Garageband element of the software rather than doing an easy install. While I was in the custom install portion of the software there are multiple checkboxes for the various elements of ilife. There are three portions: Garageband and two subfolders under Garageband named Garageband Instruments and Garageband Loops – which are grayed out. These cannot be checked and it would appear that the only elements that CAN be installed out of Garageband are Sounds and Jingles and Garage band Demos. This makes no since. Garageband opens and it plays back instrument samples and demos. It appears that it has total functionality with the exception of the Apple loops with are not even installing.
HELP!!!

EDIT: Nevermind

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