After about 3 hours of trying to get 74 products into Magento from a CSV, I had success!

But even after I cleared the cache, reindexed the tables, there were STILL no products showing up on the front page.  AND my client is going to be looking at this website tonight.  Anyways, here is the solution (last graphic)

The PDF is half a meg. Got to protect myself from the leechers.

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