I think I misunderstood when you were talking about the "NS". I'm guessing you're referring to the server that Deployment is on, rather than accessing NS management through the Console. If that's the case, yes, I'm running the tool from the server on which 7.1 resides. I copied all the files for the spanned image to the same folder and then ran as administrator. Still no dice. Yes, I'm selecing all files for the image (*.img, .002, .003, .004)
I see it copy over the files as expected it just fails to 'add' them to Deployment. Perhaps there's a file it's trying to edit that is read only?
Thanks for the suggestions so far. :)