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So i dumped my bitcoin-qt wallet into a json file with pywallet and selected it on multibit to import private keys.
However, multibit says the file has 0 keys and if i click Import, it does nothing.
Another thing it says is it might need a restart from the genesis block. Does the restart blockchain option from first transaction date to that? Shouldn't there be an option to reset the blockchain from the genesis block?

cheers

I think you have to dump key from console one by one for every address and you can import them using this help https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_importASingleKey.html also date must be  early from first transaction so you can prepare the file with many keys and import them together but date and time must corensponding with first transaction of every key.When import them you can reset blocchain from date early of first transaction of the Bitcoin-Qt wallet.

if that is the case, it does not make sense to have the import options accepting json files... if so, the process you describe seems very lazily programmed.

That import option is for importing blockchain.info wallet backups.
The functionality is described in the help:
https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_importingPrivateKeys.html

It actually says on that page that importing keys from the reference client isn't supported (mainly due to the problems with change addresses).