Fiscal Week and Fiscal Variant Creation in BW

Hi,
I have a 2004s system that is not connected to an R/3/ECC client. The data comes from a SQL Server Database. We need to report on a fiscal week basis and not a calendar week.
We have a seperate calendar week that finance uses, but operations uses a different work week (Tues - Mon).
I figure the best way to handle this is by creating a Fiscal Variant of 53 periods (one for each week). My problem is that I cannot right click on the R/3 source system and import all of the Fiscal Periods. I have to create them in BI directly.
Can anyone advise me on how to do this? I have completed the following steps:
1.) I went into SPRO=> SAP NetWeaver=> Business Intelligence=> General BI Settings=> Maintain Fiscal year variant.
2.) Then I created variant ZA with Year-Dependent and 53 periods. I left special periods blank.
3.) I create the periods for 2007 and 2008 making 1/6/07 the last day of the first period of 2007 and 12/29/07 the last day of the last period of 2007 and one final entry for 12/31/07 for period 1 year shift +1. 2008 was set up similarly.
4.) I setup the period texts naming them as 1/ FW 1 ... to 53/ FW 53 for both 2007 and 2008.
5.) I then went into SHortened Fiscal Year and made both 2007 and 2008 to have 52 periods.
Am I missing something here? When I load my data I get the following error:
"Fiscal year variant ZA is not maintained for calendar year 2007" and I get this error on over 100 records of my 1300 record load. Some Dates are 2/18/08 which isn't in FY07 and others are 1/8/07 - 1/10/07.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian

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