Good news.
SQL Native Client Versions
1. On your system and my working system showed 2005.90.4035.00
2. On my sql server showed 2005.90.3042.00
I have upgraded this driver to .4035 and the imports now work.
FYI In case anyone else has an issue, the update was here
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...5&displayLang=en
Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - December 2008
I keep the server up to date so I don't know why the driver was old?
Thanks for your work on this. Once we found out it wasn't a problem with the Progress driver (because you got me to check and Excel didn't work either) then that pointed at the SQL driver. Once I saw your system and my working one shared the same driver it meant that it was very likely to be a problem with the sql native client driver version.
Scott