Where's my automator actions? Missing!

When I upgraded to Tiger, I installed it on a new hard drive and then moved my old accont over to it. The account that was created with the installation can make automators actions, but the imported account (the one I use) has blank lists when I open automator: no actions at all.
I had a bit of time today, so I re-installed 10.4 and updated to 10.4.3 hoping that would fix the problem, but no go. Still no actions at all in this account.
Any idea how to get my missing automator actions?

Hi there,
The way that you have installed Tiger has not helped...you would have been better using you 2nd drive todo a backup (just in case) then do an Archive and Install...
...this would have preserved your data, and installed all the 'relevant bits'.
You could try doing an Archive and Install, now. This may help. Make sur you have at least 5GB spare on the drive.
If that doesn't work, try using Pacifist (http://www.charlessoft.com/) to reinstall Automator.
regards
Ric

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