John,

I get it now. Forgot to look at changing the file type in the export dialog
box. That little weird way of thinking about stuff has always screwed me up.
I am much happier in unix land, mostly solaris, some irix, some linux.

You will probably get a grin over another screwup I made. made a restore
point, then imported/expored the two "before" hive files. Then restored to
the restore point I made in preperation for doing the two afet files. Did
the two after files and then noticed my two before .reg files were missing.

duh. (red face)

thanks for the help!