yep, tried that, too. got a Girl character just like V4.

I had the Aiko character & morphs and reloaded her just like The Girl. Aiko works fine so far. also while working on this, I saw that the Victoria Muscle morphs I had weren't all there either (had not noticed that before) -- the individual muscle dials were where they need to be, but the full body morphs are not loaded.

guess i'm going to resign myself to the fact some things just don't fully work on new Mac with old and new software. I'll keep meddling.

I do appreciate your input and advice, thanks.