Yes. That was fine. The initial product level stock should become irrelevant once you start adding attribute stock.
For everybody else, Arkie and I resolved this mystery by changing his FTP settings to always overwrite existing files so that the full stock by attributes fileset was installed.
FTP programs are often reluctant to overwrite existing files, and even more so for existing files with newer last modified dates. If you have installed Zen Cart more recently than I last worked on some of the files then this may affect you and you will may need to force your FTP program to upload all the files in the package.




