fabrikmedia on "Images not uploading after Import"

I am upgrading my WordPress theme onto a new server.

I have exported the posts that I want to export choosing the category that I want, as these are the only posts I want to export. When I go to import the data, the images will not upload to the NEW server. It only references the images from the OLD website and server.

I have read through old threads in this WordPress support forum and it states that I need to export everything in order for the import to work correctly, but this does not make sense to me, as I don't need to export the 1000 posts we have on the old site.

On top of which I have tried twice exporting all the content, but the server times out. I even went to the Apple store to export the data using their high speed Inteet connection, and it still would not export and times out.

I even tried uploading the images via FTP and they don't even show up in the Media Library.

I don't want to just bulk import the images again through the Media Library, as it will lose the date/month associated with the posts.

So I'm stuck. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris