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Theo, I am not sure, but it might be related to the encoding. Maybe you need to switch to UTF-8.
Now that we have your test site up and running, we'll be able to do some more tests with it.
While the module will still need some work on the Admin side, the key is that we were able to convert your existing data, and it seems to work OK. Please test it and let me know if you see any issues.
I am thinking also about renaming this module to "Pedigree", and instead of renaming the existing tables, to copy them to new tables that would be used by the new module.
The advantage is that the user could have the old module and the new one co-exist on the server for comparison. He would just disable the old one except for the Webmaster, and uninstall it, once everything is working.
I also think, having the name "pedigree" is better than "animal" :)