How to convert a mesh to an object for use with pathfinder?

(I tried searching for this problem, but all that came up were a lot of posts about crash reports.)
My problem is that I've taken over a document where a lot of objects have mesh fills. I need to take these objects and convert them to black and white, and they need to be compound paths (ie have holes in them where there used to be color). But whenever I choose two objects, where one has a mesh fill, I can't use the pathfinder. I also can't expand the object with the mesh.
I've tried looking in the help files and search the web, but not found anything so far. Does anyone have the solution?
Why doesn't the pathfinder simply discard the mesh in the first place if it can't work with it? I could always undo if it's not the result I expected.

I am not sure I understand any of this bu you can in CS 5 give the mesh point colors an opacity of 0% since transparency is now supported in gradient mesh.
Or if you need a shaped whole in the gradient mesh then you can simply make a non clipped non inverted opacity mask.
Here you have a combination of the opacity set to zero for one of the mesh points and a shape used as an opacity mask.

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hey hemmj !!!!!!
nice replying , first of all i d like to say thanks for response me so frequently..... i like such type of guy... i d never forget ur online support.
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