Importing .sfk Sony Vegas files

Hello,
My friends recently recorded at a studio at which they were using Sony Vegas 9. I have the .sfk files and I have all the .wav files from all the takes. Rather than try to puzzle together the takes from 14 songs, I was hoping there is a way to import the .sfk files... but I can't seem to find anything about it. Has anyone done this before?

spectorjohn wrote:
Thanks. I haven't had an opportunity to fully play around and see what is there, but a quick look is worrying. There are about 1,000 wav files and although they are named for what mic they represent (ie: bass, right tom etc), the rest of the file is just a default numbering scheme that doesn't seem to relate to anything other than in which order that file was recorded. I was hoping I could import his sfk files and have the times for where the edits are.
That sounds like an impossible task as the sfk files don't contain that kind of info, it's just data for a graphic rendition of the wav file.
Question... are the wav files at least separated by song.. a folder that holds all the files to song1, song2 etc...?
If so import all of the files to one song, select all files (Apple key + A) then under the regions menu select "move regions to original record position".
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