Hi Mark,
My .org install is new and no settings have been changed.
Your reply is quite disappointing and not encouraging. It means my two years of hard work in writing and promoting my site has been lost. Along with the countless hours I have spent have been lost not to mention the money spent to get me onto .org/
Furthermore from reading the forums transferring from .com to .org does not appear to be as straightforward as the documentation on WordPress makes it appears. Since this appears to be a common issue and the amount of time WordPress has been around I would expect a large knowledge base on how to solve importing xml file generated on a wordpress.com site into a wordpress .org site.
If this is the best that can be done then in my opinion, it falls short of what I expect from WordPress and I will need to consider all of my options.