>I've been thinking that might be the case. The file was passed from one person to another to another to another to another then processed. Heck it could even be someone opened it on a different platform and re-saved it. My plan is to have the guy send ME the file actual file HE ended up with and see if it looks the same as what I sent out to begin with :)

Or, better, you send him your file, zipped, and have him compare with what he got, byte by byte.

Whenever I'm importing or exporting, I take care to take a look into the file using a hex viewer. The lister in TotalCommander has this feature in several ways - you can flip it between text, unformatted (80 chars per line, unprintables represented with dots), hex (8|8 bytes per line plus same 16 bytes as text, 32-bit relative address on the left), as html, as unicode, as utf-8, and you can also pick a codepage in which to view it. That's the only viewing tool I trust. Any text editor, even Notepad, will try to do at least some bit of formatting for you or won't be able to display if line delimiters aren't the way it likes them - and you won't know exactly what's inside.

And, yeah, it also has file compare.