I am finally able to get LaserDrw to engrave and cut the basic templates

I am finally able to get LaserDrw to engrave and cut the basic templates (circle, square etc) but It won’t import a file. When I try to import a bmp all the dialogs come up okay but when I click on the open file button, nothing happens.
I even tried to paste into the program from the clipboard but LaserDrw doesn’t appear to connect to win xp clipboard.
Does anyone have an idea what’s going on here.

Try to save it as a b&w 1-bit bmp before importing.