Pretty much just that. The save shows up on my card when I plug it in to the computer (its around 5KB). But each time I start up Pearl, it wont load it, it goes straight into a new game. Any tips?
No idea about your card but a pokemon save is 256KB on the game some cards like the R4 make the file 512KB (I don't know what else is in there) so yours is way to small.
Nope, DS-X compacts it's saves so they don't occupy space, it's a totally normal process.
However, if saves are imported from the Net, they work, yes, but the it takes more time to "Save to EEPROM data" as the DS-X has internal memory, so saves are treated in a different way than the R4 or M3 Simply, which all use Micro SD cards.
looks like the save file in the ds-x in the pokemon games is stored only in the epromm, i noticed this because when i loaded the usa ver of the game, the japanese save that i had auto loaded, maybe doing a reset on the card could solve the problem.