Field Book File .fbk Issues

Hi There:

I'm providing help to another survey department that still uses field books to import their linework into C3D. They seem to be having some issues with the converted fieldbooks that they are using. They have just lived with this in the past, and have built in checks against these issues, but I'm wondering if there is another solution out there somewhere.

Three questions:

1) Anyone know why FC-2500 (Topsurv 8) converted field books give a large vertical error on check shots (only the check shots) eventhough there is no vertical error shown in the field (or when you calc it manually)? A setting perhaps? It doesn't seem to affect the imported coordinate values.

2) They also seem to have an issue where, if the last thing they did was to make a note before changing setups, the note doesn't make it to the field book file.

3) Another issue they've been having is that C3D seems to grab the checkshot (or possibly just the last version of a control point) and use that data (description and location) to calculate the points in the computer. This results in differences between the datacollector generated points and the imported C3D generated points. Anyone know how to fix this? They've just been living with it and checking to make sure the difference isn't too much. This is probably the biggest issue, for obvious reasons.

Thanks in advance,

Paul