Thanks John.
Testing with another theme shows that this is certainly specific to the current one. Digging deeper I can see that the fields are being imported into the database, but any Tab or Message field is set to “Draft”.
I took a look at the ACF Import scripts; and don’t see any obvious filter that I should be checking the theme scripts for conflicts against. You say there are too many to mention – can you suggest some of the more obvious ones?
