Thanks for the reply.

I will review the link.

How I was trying to upload was:

Method A) Using SDM, under Additional Tasks, there's a configuration section where you can upload or merge running config. Since this did not work - I assumed it had errors.

Method B) Logged into Console using Console cable and Hyper Terminal. I when into config t and selected File > Send Text file.

It looked as if I was getting error messages with secret password and crypto items.... might be anything that was encrypted? I thought this method would work.