[Mediawiki-l] Special:Import fails

[Scott]

Is there a permission, or other setting that will prevent Special:Import from working?    I've not found any documentation other than for Interwiki importing so far at least.

I have exported the MediaWiki help section referenced here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Copying  and saved the generated XML file to desktop.  I have tried this with IE 7 as well as Firefox 2 in case it was an issue of the "save as" corrupting the xml file.  The file is only 75kb.  The import does not work and generates the following error:

"Couldn't open import file  Please export the file from the source wiki using the Special:Export utility, save it to your disk and upload it here. "

I do not have any troubles using the regular upload file page if that's a question.


- Scott