Personalisation in InDesign 5.5

Hello,
we would like to use personalisation in inDesign on Windows but there are some features missing that prevent us from diong so. For example, producing single files (1,000 pdfs from a csv file with 1,000 entries) that are all named using a column in the csv file. It would also be nice to be able to choose which delimiter to use; commas are difficult (though not impossible I admit) as we often have commas in the company names we are using.
Does anyone know of a plug-in that will let us do this?
Thanks,
Graham

Works fine for me. It opens, you click on glyphs, they're inserted. What exactly is happening for you?

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