Well, I didn’t get an y responses but I found a work around to the builtin import tool not working. Jeremy posted an unpublished plugin that worked great for me. Here is the link to the post http://clark-technet.com/2012/04/simplepress-forum-to-bbpress-forum-conversion .
Hopefully this will help anyone in the future that has the same issue I did.
Once again, a big thanks to Jeremy for writing the plugin for all to use!
