Where is color swatch library in CS4?

I have just upgraded from CS2 to CS4 and I wanted to load more color swatches. So, I looked in the CS4 folder and found Presets and then found swatches but they are not loadable. There is a folder called "legacy" but they are not readable files. I don't know what to do to load new swatches. Can you help? Thanks, Diane

It really depends on what you mean by "load new swatches."
The various swatchbooks, such as Pantone colors, are accessed through the color mode dropdown in the "new color swatch" dialog that you access from the swatches panel menu or shortcut button. You add those individually, rather than loading the entire swatchbook as you can in Illustrator.
The "load swatches" command, also in the panel menu, allows you to import swatches from another InDesign file or to load an Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) file that you've previously saved.
Peter

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[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:17 2010 DEBUG
RepairPayload succeeded.
[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:17 2010 INFO
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[       0] Tue Mar 2 11:36:17 2010 INFO
setting timeout
[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:17 2010 INFO
Beginning installation for payload at /Volumes/Adobe CS4 Design Premium Disc 1/Adobe CS4 Design Premium/payloads/AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul/AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul.dmg
[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:17 2010 DEBUG
Setting determined properties...
Mounting payload image at /Volumes/Adobe CS4 Design Premium Disc 1/Adobe CS4 Design Premium/payloads/AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul/AdobeColorJA_ExtraSettings2-mul.dmg
[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:19 2010 DEBUG
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[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:19 2010 INFO
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[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:19 2010 DEBUG
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[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:19 2010 INFO
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[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:19 2010 FATAL
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[       1] Tue Mar 2 11:36:19 2010 INFO
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