I've been meaning to ask you is about simulating the load in a remote commnuity. I've got monthly totals for a community, but that's it.  I  wanted to use HOMER to model wind-diesel options.

In that situation I just assume a daily load profile, then scale it for each month according to the monthly averages.  That of course assumes the load profile doesn't change through the year, which is not a great assumption for the far north.  If you are really clever you could change the daily profile for the winter, but I usually have enough trouble coming up with a single daily profile.  Once I have twelve 24-row columns of data in Excel, I cut and paste into HOMER's Primary Load Inputs window.  (To paste into the HOMER table, right click on the top cell and choose Paste from the menu.  Ctrl-V doesn't work unfortunately.)  First paste in the January profile, then choose February from the drop-down box and paste in February, then choose March, and so on.