[emcgman]

This exact thing happened to me, with OOTP8, including lahman 5.4 worked but 5.5 didn't.

I spent hours troubleshooting everything.

Let me help you, it's easy.

Completely uninstall OOTP8, or OOTP7, if that's what you're using. I mean, search for every folder that includes any installed components.

Windows Vista (what I have), has 2 main install locations. If you auto-uninstall, it only uninstalls the data files under user/documents/out of the park/ootp8/data. This is not the actual game engine data file, (it's the file used for all the mods) but it needs to be uninstalled too.

The actual game engine data file is in: `program files/out of the park dev/ootp8/etc

You will probably need to manually uninstall/delete the main game engine files, just like I did.

If you have Windows XP, find all the folders with installed components, and uninstall/delete as needed.

Then, once all OOTP components are completely uninstalled, you can do a fresh re-install.

Make sure you're patched up to current.

This is what I did, and everything works perfect now. I can import any year, right from the wizard, like I used to do.

I'll check back here, if you have any questions.