OK, I finally found some time to look at the problems under V5.1.8 with the copy data provider functionality. The “fix” for Bug No. 1063709 (which I never experienced, but hey) was to simply allow only one data provider to be loaded into memory. The utility has been updated accordingly. Updates were also made to copy the universe domain when creating the new data provider, and to tighten up the error handling.
The updated utility can be found here.
Dwayne Hoffpauir 
(BOB member since 2002-09-19)