Drat. Rick, I really appreciate your taking the time to answer my questions. Unfortunately, poi loader (I am using 1.0_pre) can load the attached GPX file just fine--as can the built-in "import" function--but the categories are not getting picked up. The category simply defaults to what I select at import time as the default (e.g. "Other").

I will note one other difference--Mapper's built-in import function preserves the line breaks in the <desc> tag, while poi loader converts them to spaces. That may be a "feature" not a bug, I just wanted to point it out.

NB, you probably need to change the extension of the attached back to ".gpx". I could not upload it with that extension, so I changed it to ".txt".

Perhaps preserving the categories isn't going to be possible . . . but if you happen to have an example GPX file you'd be willing to share that does pick up the categories upon loading, I'd love to see it. Maybe by eyeballing the way it is constructed I can figure out how to tweak the format of the attached (or rather, the script that generates the attached). Thanks again.