Converting Quicken Windows to Mac

I've followed the instructions on Intuit's site, and continue to get error messages when uploading the Transaction QIF file into Quicken for Mac.
Invalid QIF Header: Type:@N|
Invalid QIF Header: Type i (but with a Spanish accent over the i)
If anyone has run into this and fixed it, or has additional pointers on making this switch, please advise!

This is one of those cases where I'd stick with the Windows version and run VMWare Fusion or Parallels. When I switched to the Mac from WinTel machines about the time the Intel-based Mac's came out, I maintained a Windows machine solely for Quicken. It was obvious that the Mac version was an afterthought to Intuit and it still remains a poor stepchild to the Windows version. The moment there were reliable VMs available to enable the Mac to run Windows applications under a VM, I simply installed the Windows version of Quicken into my Windows XP virtual machine (VMWare now, but Parallels at the beginning) and have continued to use it to this day. With more than 15 years' worth of data collected in Quicken, I wasn't about to risk data loss making the transition to a well-documented file-incompatible system. When Intuit decides to make the Mac and Windows versions identical and use the same data files, then I'll switch to a Mac version. Until then, it is no sweat for me to run the Windows version.

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