Snow Leopard deleted all my system sounds...

Here's one for ya: After installing Snow Leopard I thrilled to discover the 100+ sounds I had in /Home/Library/Sounds had been deleted and replaced with the small handful of OS X stock sounds (Basso, Frog, etc.).
Thanks, Apple!

Yeah, I did a search for one of the file names and it couldn't be found. They're gone, baby, gone.
And last time I backed that Sounds folder up I had only 30-40. Ah well.

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    Message was edited by: Alexandre

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