Opening SVG in Illustrator

Ok here's the problem.
I really need to open some Icons drawn with Inkscape (Oxygen icons for KDE 4.2, you can get them on the net) in Illustrator.
Their format is .SVG and when i open them i get the message "clipping lost on roundtrip to tiny", but thats not the main problem.
All the areas that are transparent loose their gradient, and arent transparent any more. Some other areas with blends loose the blend and so on.....
Please let me know if there is a solution. (and i already tried openeing them in Inkscape and saving as .eps or as non-inkscape .svg but that didnt do the trick.)
Thank you in advance.

First CS 3 does not support transparency in gradients so these transparent areas might have true transparent gradients. In CS3 you have to lower the opacity of the path which decrease the true range of the gradient and si that might explain why you are losing the attributes you desire they might not be supported.
Two there does seem to be non svg versions of the icons.
But I am downloading the svg and see if there is an improvement with CS 4.
Is this what you are looking for?
I got the error also on one of the files but that seems to be the work of Rapidshare not Illustrator so your answer is probably CS4

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