Hi Ken,
It's been a while and I had many things on the plate but I finally came around doing what we discussed here: restoring a very large course viat FTP.
I did have to modify the config files as mentionned but after that the fpt process was a breeze!
Just wanted to thank you for the walkthrough and witness to the fact that it does work (in case others might look witth the same key words: i.e restore large course.
Cheerio