Dear Alison,
If you faced the Error No. 7 : "In river: SomeRiver, with Topo - ID : SomeTopoID, from ... meter to ... meter no cross sections exist in the database ...", than the problem is that Branch Name of some of your rivers from nwk11 file doesn't match with the River Name field in xns11 file.
Please see the attachment where I illustrate a setup which generates the above error.
Kind regards,
Aurelian