Animation Squiggles/ bad Animations

Well, if like you said you are importing the animation without selecting a skeleton then the problem isn’t retargeting.

My guess is you didn’t copy the exact bone structure and/or you accidentally flipped bones on FBX import by matching orientation or something the like.

share a high enough def of your skeleton from within persona so we can check it.
also turn on skeleton during the animation and screenshot that so we know where your bones are.