Textutil broken after Safari 3 update?

I have some scripts that use textutil to convert html files to rtfs. I tried one today & it didn't work -- tried running textutil filename.html -convert rtf from the command line, and after an unusually long wait I eventually got the message "Error reading filename.html"
I can't remember the last time I used these scripts but it's been a few weeks, so I'm thinking the culprit is Safari 3 / webkit....
Has anyone else seen this problem / got an idea for a fix?
thanks
Derick

Seems that you're right. I tested this by first trying out textutil before installing Safari 3, and then afterwards. No go. Hmm... what was the address for the bug tracking system? Seems like a serious bug to me. It seems that reading HTML files is broken since I can still convert files to HTML.

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Hi, Derick
I'm noticing the same problem, but if I supply the full path to the file textutil works fine. For example:
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