How come Excel 2003 mis-translates all imported dates withint the 1st to 12th
of each month, even though I have correctly set my Regional Settings ?

I'm really sick of having to pick my way throught sometimes 100 lines of
imported accounting ledger reports, to manually re-type each such date into
the correct date formatt - DD/MM/YYYY.

Or don't its programmers realize that people actually live outside the U.S.
???
Haven't they heard of the British date format ?

Yep - us Loyalists are still here !