Greetings, I'm trying to open a .ai file without luck. It says "Failed to load request file path-to-file-and-filename."

Any ideas? I saw that some folks have been using ai2svg.py, I d/l'd it and I'm running it... it's been chugging away for about an hour with no .svg file in site, (it's still running). I have a fairly decent machine running it, Lenovo T410 w/ i5.

Is there meta info in the .ai file that would be of use? The .ai file was probably made towards the beginning of the 2000's if that is helpful.

I'm in Ubuntu 10.04, I'm using the native Inkscape version in U10.04, 0.47

Any help is appreciated. BTW I'm in love with the The Book of Inkscape, By Dmitry Kirsanov, I had to let a co-worker borrow it and I was sad to do so! We're both beginning to learn about Inkscape for work. I'm totally in love with this program. I got to sit down with my girl the other day and walk her through editing an SVG.. I think I got her hooked to.

I guess I might be whining, but I don't want to bother with Illustrator, what a hassle.

-Andy