Yes I only deleted the ';' in each line and left one at the '-------' points. I was right in that it was this part that was causing me trouble and you were correct as well. Notepad was corrupting the file when I edited it with it

Thank you for that link you posted! I just downloaded and extracted them and replaced my export_descr_character_traits.txt with the already modified one, and now I can finally fight my battles night and day