Swatch library in AI 10 missing

I have just opened up a file and discovered that the pantone swatch library has disappeared!
Under window there is a tab for swatches, but there isn't an option to import them. Looking in the application folder I can see under presets that there is folder called swatches and within a whole array of pantone libraries.
I need to get them into illustrator. Anyone know how to do this?

I do not think that the term Color Book was used back then so unless you have such an item listed then I would say you have a corrupt font data base or corrupt font in your user account.
It is a known issue that if that where true it would prevent the swatch libraries from loading since the fonts load first.

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