Sander, thanks for your reply:

Yes I am able to run examples, such as the one I hyperlinked. Again, I cannot make the examples work with my data.

I'm using a 2D list of data, as I described terribly.

For the error, I lazily retyped the message and did not capitalize the color in the error; in the data files, the colors are capitalized (see colors.csv). Also, with the ToExpression command, I'm able to verify that the colors are imported correctly.

With a random array of colors, I receive the same error.

I've attached two files, examples of what I'm using; you can re-create the plot I previously screen captured with data.csv.

Attachments:

Very hard to give you the answer without knowing the data! Have you looked at the examples?

data = Flatten[
   Table[{x, y, Sin[x y]}, {x, 0, 3, 0.1}, {y, 0, 3, 0.1}], 1];
colors = Table[Hue[RandomReal[]], {31 31}];
ListPlot3D[data, Mesh -> None, VertexColors -> colors]

works fine.

What are the dimensions of your data? Is it an 2D or 3D list? Regarding the colors, yours errors says it is "magenta" rather than Magenta, so the colors seem to be a list of strings rather than actual colors. Have you tried making colors using RandomColor with the correct dimensions to check?