LR cannot Import - Unknown Error

I am getting this error message when trying to import a catalog "Lightroom could not import because of Unknown Error".
The catalog I am attempting to import contains about 6000 images and was built by the beta during the Beta phase.  It opens fine by itself - as it worked throughout the beta.  I have no problems opening it and working on it directly with LR3.0.
However, since this was my catalog for just a couple of projects during the Beta, I now want to fold it into my main catalog of some 19,000 images.  My main catalog was my LR2.7 catalog and I have successfully converted it to LR3.0 - it opens fine and works fine.
Said in another way, while running 3.0, I can switch freely back-and-forth between these 2 catalogs using File | Open Recent
I am just unable to import the beta's converted catalog into it.  After doing File | Import from Catalog, LR asks for the name - I navigate to the xxx.lrcat file and select it.  The import starts and displays a Preparing to Import information window...perhaps for a second or two, then stops with the above message which is reported as a Warning .... however, the import stops at this point.
So, this is kind of serious......
Both catalogs are on the same drive, with plenty of free space.
What additional information do you require to resolve this ?
jc

thanks for the input .... I had some duplicates in the beta catalog.  I
resolved them manually then removed them from the catalog and Optimized it.
I was then able to Import from Catalog without difficulty.
jc
From: Gary Jones UK
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 7:48 AM
To: Jim Camelford
Subject: LR cannot Import - Unknown Error
This has already been reported and the problem has been identified by Adobe.
The key post is this one: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2877882#2877882

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