I got a message from google telling me my files had all been uplaoded successfully (which is odd, because the Google Base site tells me they have all failed!). They also added this to the email:
"Using Froogle attributes: We noticed that your bulk upload is using attribute names specified in the Froogle product feed format. We highly recommend that you use the attributes specific to the Google Base bulk upload format in your next bulk upload, as including information for these attributes will help users find your items. For more information about the Google Base bulk upload format and a complete list of attributes, please see the following link:

http://base.google.co.uk/base/tab_instructions.html "

My other site is marked as disapproved, but when you click on it , it says success. Also the number of products bears no resemblance to what I have on that site. All in all a complete balls-up!
I had really given up with Google Bse in the past because of all these problems, and decided to concentrate on Froogle. Now I've been thrown back in the nest of vipers. Ho-hum.