trivia the reason you are having trouble is because the newer technology does not support the older EQ versions. I have trouble with my EQ5 also.
You do have to have EQ6 to get the upgrade price for EQ7. You can find EQ6 if someone wants to sell theirs.
As for the problem you are having - Does it happen in every file you try to import your fabric into? Have you tried opening a diff file and importing in that file?
I imagine the ladies at EQ will tell you what they told me. Your program is out of date and they can't do anything to help. It is due to the new technology of your computer is not able to connect with certain parts of your program. so you get gaps in what you can do with it. some things just will never work on it. I get alot of notices on 5 that say this is an invalid path. I can't open any new files on my EQ5 so I use one that already exists and just delete what I don't want in it and use it to create new designs. works for me LOL
I do have 23 lessons I wrote if you are interested in them. Most of the lessons are done on my EQ5 with EQ6 and EQ7 pics added in if the lesson is diff for each version.
However this picture importing is not one of the things I covered.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...a-t195158.html
You do have to scroll down to see all of the pdfs
Here is the user defined section where you can find all the comments on the EQ
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tags/electric+quilt.html
If I can help just pm me. Click on my name and then click on private message