Opening AutoCAD files in Illustrator CS3 - Jagged Curves

When I open my 2004 format AutoCAD files, all the smooth polylines from CAD are made into jagged edges (a bunch of straight segments) in Illustrator. Does anyone know how to fix this to smooth them back out? Thanks,
Matt

Brandon one of the problems is that you guys spend time complaining about it but you don't file a bug report if a few of you did it would get adobe's attention and they probably would do something about it.
If one person like myself does it it means that there is very little going on with this issue and it is probably user error. but if a group files then hey let's look at it.
So file a report.

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