Missing Material Library - Autocad 2009

I down loaded the student Ed of autocad Architect off the autodesk website. I have no option during the download to overide custom settings so the option of loading the complete materials page is not available to me.

Going into windows programs in the control panel and installing features or a reinstall doesn't work either.

I am an architecture student so I need this badly.

This was posted over at the AUGI forums. Maybe it will help. If it doesn't come back here and let us know. We'll try something different.

"A typical installation installs less than 100 materials on the Materials tool palettes. An additional 300 or more materials are available by optionally installing the Materials library. The library can be accessed through the Configuration button on Add/Remove features in the installer. By default, all of the Materials tool palettes are installed in the Tool Palettes File Locations path specified on the Files tab of the Options dialog box. (See Texture Maps Search Path on the Files tab for the location of texture maps.)

NoteThe Materials library components are always installed to the default location. If you change the paths before you install the Materials library, the new materials are not displayed on the tool palettes and the texture maps are not referenced by the materials. Either copy the newly installed files to the location you want, or change the path back to the default."

When I had a similar problem in plain AutoCAD 2007 this is the advice I followed to obtain the missing materials. Not sure if it would work for Arch '09 but it is a second option to the one posted above. Let us know if either of these suggestions work or not. The information may be useful to someone else. Thanks.

"Looking for your additional Material Library content? If you don’t see a Material Library tool palette group, right-click on the Tool Palettes titlebar and go to Customize Palettes. Drag all the palettes ending in “ – Material Library” on the left side (Palettes) into the Material Library palette group on the right side. Close the Customize dialog, and your Material Library palette group will now be fully populated with additional content."

The source for this suggestion was a rep from AutoDesk.