Reloading iLife on my Mac Mini

I do not know how to reload iLife on my Mac Mini. I do not have iLife '06. I have the previous version.
It came installed on my mini but has since "cracked out" after some "housekeeping" on my mac (my husband may have thrown some important stuff away).
Can you point me in the right direction?

I reloaded the software and still nothing really changed. My problem is twofold. Since the issue began, my iPhoto won't recognize jpeg photos that it used to have in the library. I try to import, but it says the file isn't compatible. Mind you, they used to be in iPhoto as the exact same jpeg photos.
The second, more important problem is that my iMovie will no longer connect to my Sony Handycam. It used to connect fine, now it won't. It's not the camera or the firewire because I tried both on my work Mac and it worked fine on iMovie.
Please help me. All of my troubles seem to stem from iLife apps. I have a mac mini running OS X 10.3.9 512 MB DDR SDRAM and am using the version of iLife that came on my mini (not iLife '06).
Thanks!
Cheryl Pierce
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
If you have a Mac OS X 10.4 install disk, there
should be an installer on that disk named something
like "install additional software only". This
installer will let you pick and choose between the
non-Mac OS X system software that came installed on
your Mac mini (things like iLife, AppleWorks and the
games). If you have a Mac OS X 10.3 install disk,
it's possible that it came with iLife '04 installed
and you should have received an iLife '05 install
disk. But it doesn't sound like this is the case.
-Doug

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