Yep that one works fine. Knowing what the issue is helps a lot too. It looks like font size in pixels is a feature in Inkscape (i.e. the manual shows no way to change it to points, only how to resize it in pixels.) but knowing that I can maybe figure out how to modify the xml to set the font size in points before saving it. I'll try it and see what happens. Its a PITA but if it works I'm willing to do it 
. At the very worst I can use a text editor outside of Inkscape to fix up the xml. I'm coming to think that Old_Grey may be correct and editing the xml directly may be the best answer. I loaded the perl simpleXML parser on cygwin yesterday and I can get it to dump the XML (mostly, I think some of it was missing perhaps) so that may be an avenue as well. It should certainly work for checking that I haven't missed deleting something at the very least which is why I started exploring it. When I feel get a bit more competent at parts editing perhaps I'll write up a tip guide for the next poor bastard. Thanks again progress is being made!
Peter Van Epp