[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] silent failing to import all posts

I’m trying to import 1438 posts from an old Movable Type installation. On the first pass, the plugin claimed to have imported all of them, however when I checked, only 200 random posts were imported. It wasn’t the first 200, or the last 200, or even 200 sequential posts buried in the middle. Just 200 random posts, with no errors anywhere.

I then edited the file with all the posts to include just 3 posts that silently failed to import earlier, and tried to import it again. Once again, it claimed to have imported them (even listed their titles accurately on the import page). Yet when I checked, none of them were actually imported.

I’m at a loss how to make this work, especially when it silently fails with no errors whatsoever. Help?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/movabletype-importer/