Rather than going through the painful Import process, I find it much easier to just go to a Participant in NXT and enter in Guest information. If there was a batch form/table to add guests (for example, we have 10 seats at a table that are sponsored by one company/entity), I could all their guests while I'm on the phone rather than having to enter them one by one.
The process for adding guests one by one is still way too slow!! I just had to add 40 guests that were emailed over. Some kind of batch entry would be so helpful!