Lightroom 4 wont allow me to import presets

My computer wouldnt stop annoying me to upgrade to windows 8.1 and so finally i did and there were no warnings to backup anything as well. But after it was all finished a lot of things i had to reinstall and one of those things were my presets. I know how to normally import them but Lightroom wont let me and says that "the preset file was the wrong type of preset". it's never done this before, so i'd like to know if im doing something wrong or what the problem is. Thanks

A few details about what you are doing and what is happening would be most helpful. In particular, if there is an error message please quote the complete error message word-for-word verbatim.
Also, please tell us what camera you have and what version of Lightroom you are using.

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