When attempting to import an Excel spreadsheet into a VFP 6.0 table, I receive a the Fatal Exception Error C0000005.

The file being imported was originally created in VFP with the command :

COPY TO filename.ext TYPE XL5

the file was latter edited in Excel 97 to add a second sheet which contains a pivot table.

The sheet I want to import is the original sheet. I have tried using each of the following commands, all with the same result.

APPEND FROM filename.ext XL5 SHEET sheetname
and
APPEND FROM filename.ext XL8 SHEET sheetname

Any suggestions.