[Inkscape-user] SVG rendering problem

I'm having difficulties getting inkscape to properly render some SVG files (using version 0.43 on a fedora core 3 system). An example file is here:

http://edwards1.phy.ohiou.edu/~brune/map-save.svg

inkscape map-save.svg -z -w 600 -e test.png

does not render it properly (e.g. compared to batik). Also the image is not displayed properly if I open it with inkscape.

Curiously, converting to eps works fine:

inkscape map-save.svg -z -T -E test.eps

I also find the same problem running on windows XP (installing Inkscape-0.44-1.win32.exe).

Is this a bug? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Carl B.