The IS a pID column with "pID" on the top. The file was downloaded via "Filtered Inventory". Then, I changed something in every row of the pID column, then I saved and closed in Open office Calc then tried to upload it as "add to database". Did I miss something?
Did you alter or remove the header row? If not, you might want to open the file in a text editor such as notepad to see if you see anything strange as Open Office, just like Excel can allow strange things to happen sometimes, including the dreaded leading zero issues.
I did nothing to the header row whatsoever. It's strange. I'm working on a project with this so I've been doing this a lot lately with the only difference being that I'm uploading the files using "update" as opposed to "add" and it's been working flawlessly. In this case however I downloaded the csv and deleted the the items from the site and changed the info in the pID column by one digit in order to create all new items. I opened it in Textpad and it all looks normal as far as I can tell.
Small update: I opened it in Textpad and it wasn't formatted like it would be in Calc which I think is normal. After that I opened it in Excel and it looks the same as it does in Textpad. I opened it in Calc and it looks as it should. Does that provide and clues?