I purchased Steven Slate drums (premiere pack) and I am struggling to get them to show up on my Daw. I'm running Sonar 8.5 through an I - 7 with two terra bite Hard drives x64 and windows 7. I've been currently running EZ drummer and have had no problems. I feel like a stooge and have never had this many issues adapting a drums based program. I have spoke with many people about this and every damn time their solution is to switch to Protools or reaper. Better yet, they always cop out with "it must be a corrupted file." I can't believe the corrupted file theory because I have downloaded the drums twice and I only have one download attempt left. Hence my urgency.
 
Can anyone provide an easy, layman's terms version for a massively stupid person a step by step process of how to download the drums and have them show up on my Sonar 8.5 producer series? I only have one more crack at this and I want to make it count.

Even though this is related to 8.5 and this is the correct forum, I would still post in the X forum as that is 95% of the user base now. Someone there is more likely to know the answer. After all, plenty of X people are always posting here! 

It might be good to know something about the steps you've taken. What makes you think there's something wrong with the actual download? Without the slightest idea of what you have done, it's hard to start guessing what is wrong. At least in theory :o) downloading and installing a VSTi is so straightforward that you need to give us hints.
 
No messages appearing? Everything, SONAR, Slate, are 64 bit versions?

Uh, just in case, I will ask if you did a VST scan in SONAR?