The solutions provided here should help:
nospamNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/2009/07/excel-csv1.html


> From: John Israel
> ...Excel has the nasty habit of doing things to the 
> data.  For example, leading zeros are removed from 
> numeric data.  This is a bad thing if you have valid 
> data like 123, 0123 & 00123.  Excel will make then all 
> 123.  Sure, I can put quotes around them, but when the 
> folks that use macros and pivot tables, or tie into 
> other Excel files, these will not work ("00123" does 
> not equal 0123 in Excel).  Big numbers, like GL#s get 
> converted to scientific notation.  Some numbers or 
> text get converted to dates.

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