In any case, I don't think the extra line feeds in the display of the output would matter, because the way the batch script works is that it "finds" a line with a key word, then acts on it.
Yes, that was my thinking, too.
I was half expecting Excel to do a better job importing the data- especially when I specifically tell it to only mind the commas, but it's not been a successful route.
The good news is that on the grand scale of things, this issue is just peanuts. Kinda fun to dink around with, but nothing to really worry about.