In part, what I went back and posted to my issue reply in the e-on help forum thing...

I guess I can be forgiven for thinking the files were "corrupted" when I unzipped AFTER FOUR + YEARS the plants and saw three cases of each one with funny extensions like _# or _$ on the end... It suddenly dawned on me these are the encoded file extensions that need the serial number for vue to install them, and I needed to also put in the dll's that came with the folder of plants!! So I have what I needed all along, I just did not remember what the little things looked like and assumed they were corrupted out of the zip!

SO all is well that ends well... IF and when I can get vue to accept each and every plant..I already got a "you have exceeded the allowed" something or other to install this plant when I did not do it JUST RIGHT...and if it takes copying out the installed plants, un-installing vue, reinstalling, until I get all the plants registered with vue, I will do that... THEN I will archive those plants as a whole right out of my vue on it's own CD immediately.

I also just wish it were easier to talk to support. Entering all my user info for any post here is a real pain! All I really needed was someone to tell me my odd looking extensions were not corruptions!

Lyne<--- the one who will spend the whole day installing vue extra veggies, cause I want them that much! :)

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!