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Thanks, that was it!

I created a new *.REG Document Class, and checked "Write UNICODE and UTF-8 BOM", and checked "Default encoding = UTF-8".

Sorry about the premature Bug Report.

Geoff H

Apparently, when a file is exported from REGEDIT, a byte of hex "FF FE" is put at the beginning of the file. NOTEPAD also knows to add and keep this byte. TEXTPAD is stripping it off (and never adding it), so therein lies the problem I think. I have reported it in a Bug Report.