Sound Fonts: How to record?

I can get the sound fonts to play in Garageband player but the song sent to iTunes the instruments defaults to the software instruments? And while we are at it is it possible to convert sound fonts to software instruments?
imac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Using SoundFontSynth and load a sf2 file and apply it to a midi track, depending on the sf2 file they seem to vary, GB plays the ihe instrument but when the song is sent to iTunes the new instrument either is changed back to the instrument applied when the midi file was loaded or doesn't play at all.
Since I first asked I tried another sf2 file and it worked the amended instrumentation played. For somone new to this it is bewildering but I am keen to learn.
imac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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