我感觉arcgis9里catalog的右击菜单转换很多都有问题，其实不必用这些，直接使用arctoolbox就可以了，一点问题没有。

<P>Did you ever try using the sampel shape file coming with your installation as a source shape file and then import it into geodatabase? Did it go through?</P><P>The error code indicates that there is a decoding error, so I doubt it's somehow related to your operation system.</P>