The import problem has been solved! Here’s what was happening:

Check out the code on the post that was showing up as 1969.

AUTHOR: Alan Kistler
TITLE: Sci-Fi Writers Ready To Fight Terror!
BASENAME: scifi_writers_ready_to_fight_t
STATUS: Publish
ALLOW COMMENTS: 1
ALLOW PINGS: 1
DATE: 05/31/2007 14:01:58 PM
CONVERT BREAKS: 1
PRIMARY CATEGORY: Off-topic

Look at that date again:  05/31/2007 14:01:58 PM

PM?  If you’re using military time, you don’t need a PM.  The odd thing is that the morning posts with AM after it import just fine, but posts with PM would cause it to be import as 1969.

A simple find-and-replace of my exported text files cleaned up the posts and now they’re importing without a fuss.  As soon as I’ve finished my test of a few more imports, we should be good to go.

In the meantime, enjoy reading more and more of the archived posts.