Something keeps nibbling on my list

[michael]

My program reads a file and copies it into a list, line by line. Then
writes the list to another file. for some reason the first 2 lines from
the first file are missing from the second file. i know that they are
being read into the list because i print the whole list out and they are
there. Can someone please help? The entire program is below.

     TIA
            Michael