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Well, this is curious.

I thought I had the problem solved. I think I'm close.

Here's what I did.

Thinking the trouble might be that I was cutting and pasting from Excel, I went to my Excel file and saved it as a .csv file.

I opened that in TextEdit and noticed that every line had quotation marks around it: "Richard,5000,39"

I did a massive find and replace to remove the quotation marks.

I renamed the file first_names.txt and placed it in the database directory (overwriting the other file). Note that ONLY group 39 names were in the file.

I opened OOTP, re-imported the names database, and went into a player editor.

Everything fine!

"Great", I said, "the problem must be the Excel cut and paste".

So, I then took a copy of the ORIGINAL first_names.txt file and copied the names from my "39 only" file into it, overwriting the group 39 names in that original file. I saved it in the database folder and returned to OOTP.

Re-import, player editor.

JUNK!

Now I'm baffled. What is it about that file that if I only change the 39 set it won't work?

Even checked alphabetical order. I don't see why that should make a difference (it didn't when the file was only my list of names), but seeing all the other name sets are in alphabetical order, I'll try it.

So, I'm stumped.

There must be something about that file.