Hi @joel,
I’d strongly recommend to update to the latest Knime version 4.02 first to ensure you are not falling victim to a bug fixed already.
About your issue. How are you downloading the remote files? Can you upload a screenshot of the workflow that loads the files please? There can be fast differences how files are fetched via FTP, from Amazon S3 or via simple http receiver in Palladian (great extension btw!).
Cheers
Mike