v.in.arc help!

Hello:
  I'm trying to import some ARC/INFO coverages to GRASS4.1 using the
v.in.arc routine. Everything goes well until I run v.support and get this
message:

  PNT_TO_AREA failed: (709787, 4424528) (category 12)

This happens on one coverage but not the other, even though the ungenerated
files used as input to v.in.arc appear okay. The result is a loss of that
particular poly in the newly created GRASS vector file.
  Is there another (better) way to convert ARC data? I will ultimately
convert all to raster.

Thanks
Michael Killion (killion@ukanvm.bitnet or mike@geogsun.geo.ukans.edu)