[OS X TeX] ! LaTeX Error: File `pdfsync.sty' {and topcapt.sty] not found

[Winfried Zettelmeyer]

Greetings to all,
to my surprise after weeks of increasingly successful work with  
TeXshop the program suddenly claims it cannot find pdfsync.sty,  
although it does sit in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/ . It is possible  
that I messed something up, but even after substituting the texmf  
folder by the original texmf folder to my Library as prescribed in  
the IMPORTANT_README.rtf of the Texshop.dmg, the program keeps  
complaining.

All the other packages of the preamble (see below) are being loaded  
without problem as they apparently sit in the hidden "usr" folder.  
TeXshop preferences Engine and Typesetting are set to the default  
values.
Why does the program not find what it found before, what can I do ?

I have added the introductory lines of the log file.
Extremely grateful for advice !
Winfried


\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,titlepage,oneside,openany]{report}
\usepackage{geometry} % see geometry.pdf on how to lay out the page.  
There's lots.
\usepackage{pdfsync} % to relate .tex file with .pdf file      THIS  
IS NOT FOUND
\usepackage{graphicx} % to include figures
\usepackage{topcapt} %to allow table titles on top             THIS  
IS NOT FOUND
\usepackage{ulem} %  "underline emphasis" to break long underlined text
\usepackage{longtable} % to allow tables that are longer than one page
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{eurosym}% prints the Euro symbol
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}% allows accented letters
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % dito
\usepackage{textcomp} % dito
\usepackage{lmodern} % dito
\usepackage{lineno}% allows line numbering in output file
\usepackage[english,frenchb]{babel}
\selectlanguage{english}

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
\write18 enabled.
output format initialized to PDF
entering extended mode
(./TMFReportLaTeX.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,  
ngerman, d
utch, italian, norsk, portuges, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
etc.etc............

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