Importing vCards problem.

I am trying to import vCards made with address book 3.1.2 (v321). On my computer I have version 4.1.1 (695).
I export the vCards and send by mail the resulting .vcf file. When I try to import it I get the following error message: "No importable cards were found."
Is there a way around this problem, which to me seems a version problem.
"Thanks for helping"

--kk-- emailed me the problem vcf file, I dropped it onto Address Book and got the same error. I opened the file with BBEdit and saw a couple of strange characters before the first BEGIN, but deleting them did not help. I displayed invisible characters, and found, between every valid character, 7 null characters, so I removed them all and emailed the result back to --kk-- who was able to import it (so it is not the email process that is adding all the nulls).
The question is, what is adding them? --kk-- can you describe the process used to create the file? Was there some unusual character set on the source machine?
AK

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