Forgot to mention, the things I'm trying to rescue are all within a CMFDefault instance. The objects I tried exporting / importing were Portal Folders. cmf is from the CVS HEAD around Nov 14th. wonder if this is related to my errors. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's RADIO DARK PATIENT! (courtesy of isometric.spaceninja.com)