One other thing that I've run into before is that if you edit a CSV file in Excel it will drop leading zeros on anything that it thinks is a number. Here's an example of what can happen. Let's say you have an inventory item ID 012345. If you edited the item.csv file in Excel before importing it, Excel tries to be helpful and drops the zero since numbers don't start with zero. The file then imports with no errors, but your item ID is now 12345. Now let's say you try to import purchase orders but you don't edit the file before importing it. It still has 012345 as the item ID so the import fails because there's no matching item in Sage 50. The way to prevent this is to rename the files as .TXT instead of .CSV before opening it in Excel. Then use Text to Columns (on the Data menu) to split it out into columns and designate all columns as text. If it sees 012345 as a text string instead of a number it won't drop the leading zero.
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