Saving MIF file to FM

Many posts on here talk about converting an FM file to MIF and then saving back to FM, in order to clean or fix up a file. I rarely do it, but have done it in the past.
Today, I am having troubles with an old file converted to v7.2. I can save it to MIF, but when I try to save to FM, Frame tells me that MIF cannot be saved to document format. I have encountered this error before, but with book files and just assumed that saving a mif book to standard fm book does not work. But now I cannot do it with a document file. Is there something I need to do in the ini file, or somewhere else.
Or is my Frame install completely corrupted. I have had to kill it several times recently because it gets stuck trying to display a PDF. I thought the problem was with the PDF, but maybe it is with Frame itself.
I have Frame v7.2b144. The operating system is Windows XP v2002, service pack 3.
Thanks,
Van

Thanks Sheila and Art for the patch information. I thought we had the latest.
The MIF issue seems to be that when one does a save as, Frame displays the .mif extension in the file name box. When you try to save to fm, Frame complains because the .mif is part of the file name. Deleting it then allows Frame to save the mif file as fm. I just never noticed this before. On the other hand, it does not complain when saving an fm file to fm, even though the .fm extension is displayed in the file name box. O, the quirkiness of it all!
And the update did not resolve the PDF importation problem. I am going back to my original tack and assuming the problem is with the PDF file. It was created by a program that can view gp4 files (a fax format) but cannot save to another format. So, we just print to PDF. Photoshop can open the PDF, but Illustrator gets bogged down. Hence, the notion that the problem is with the PDF. I think we will buy a cheap conversion program that can save the gp4 file to tif, which can then be imported into the Frame file.
This call worked OK three years ago, but maybe the version of Acrobat at that time created a simpler PDF file.
Thanks again,
Van

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