OK, I went the extra mile again (that's 2 miles, for those keeping count) and made it easy for you to test a personal digital certificate.

I've created a personal digital certificate that I don't mind sharing publicly, so that you and others who think they are having trouble with personal certificates can test it once and for all with a known-good certificate.

Import my certificate and see if it correctly installs into the "User" tab of Certificate Manager.

Here's the process.....

1. Download my (technut canada) personal digital certificate from here:
   http://technut.canada.googlepages.com/cert.p12
   You could open it directly (which starts up Certificate Manager) but I suggest saving it to your memory card somewhere so that you can open it up from within Certificate Manager yourself, to see the whole process.
2. Open Control panel / Certificate manager and tap the "Import" button. Select the "cert" file that you just downloaded.
3. You will be prompted for the password that I used for the certificate. Enter "test".
4. You will be notified that "technut canada" is going to be installed. Tap OK.
5. You will be asked what Trust settings to use. For this test, check the WLAN box. If you were actually importing a real certificate you should check ALL the boxes that cover your intended use. Tap OK.
6. You will be prompted to change the password to be used for safely storing this certificate. Pick your own password (must be at least 5 characters). Tap OK, then enter it again to Verify and tap OK again.
7. You will be notified that "UTN-USERFirst-Client" is going to be installed. This is a related root cert. Tap OK.
8. You will be asked what Trust settings to use. For this test, check the WLAN box. If you were actually importing a real certificate you should check ALL the boxes that cover your intended use. Tap OK.
9. You will be notified that "AAA Certificate Services" is going to be installed. This is also a related root cert. Tap OK.
10. You will be asked what Trust settings to use. For this test, check the WLAN box. If you were actually importing a real certificate you should check ALL the boxes that cover your intended use. Tap OK.
11. If all has gone well, you should see a message "Certificate imported". Tap OK.

Now in the Certificate Manager "User" tab you should see a new cert that was Issued to "technut canada". Congratulations, your import of a personal digital certificate worked correctly.

If that DOESN'T work for anyone, then maybe there is indeed a bug that needs to be addressed.

But if it correctly installed into the "User" tab and yet your own certificate gets installed into the "Authorities" tab, then it is quite likely that you have a root certificate and not a personal certificate. And a root certificate is not going to work as personal authentication.

There's no sense trying to actually use my cert for anything, but if you want to verify that it is available for WLAN connections go ahead and create a new connection and see that you can select the "technut canada" cert as your personal cert.

All that is left now is to clean up by deleting the 3 certs (personal and two roots) that were just installed:

1. In Certificate Manager, View each of the 3 certs and while in View, tap the Delete button.
2. View / Delete the "User" cert for "technut canada"
3. View / Delete the "Authorities" cert for "AAA Certificate Services"
4. View / Delete the "Authorities" cert for "UTN-USERFirst-Client"
5. Close Certificate Manager and you're done.

I hope this will let people verify that there either is, or is not, a bug related to importing personal digital certificates. And by doing so, hopefully they can also determine whether the certificate they have been issued for their WLAN connection is really a personal certificate or a root certificate.