If I create a cursor and put in two dates then copy those to a CSV file, shouldn't they come back as the same date when appending? Check out this code and tell me why it is behaving the way it is.

CREATE CURSOR x (date d)
FOR i = 1 TO 2 
    INSERT INTO x VALUES (DATE())
ENDFOR
COPY TO test.csv TYPE csv
*Output to test.csv looks like
*date
*07/20/2002
*07/20/2002
APPEND FROM test.csv TYPE csv
MODIFY FILE test.csv nowait
GO TOP
BROWSE NOWAIT