Yeah….
…. really annoying having someone post so much, but the problem is finally fixed.
I don’t know what happened, but in the process of trying to get this to work right I seem to have excluded the option “datatype”. After a day and a half of messing with this, it figures it’d be something as simple as that to get this working.
So yes, the data loads correctly (finally, yeesh, my bad). Thanks anyway!