(2012-08-21, 04:37)PaulWSmith Wrote: By the way, where are the templates that come with the basic package. When I unzipped there was no file indicating basic templates.

The basic templates are not included in the PRO package, so you would have to install them separately if you still want them (normally not needed at all).

Your install problems are really strange, normally people get along pretty well with this step-by-step instruction. No problems with your MacOS Version are known.
Maybe it could be an approach to create an arbitrary slideshow-template in Lightroom, name it and search for that name Finder to locate the directory where the Slideshow templates should go into.