I'm a n00b so bear with me.
Firstly, does anyone know of a source for the pstoedit plugins besides pstoedit.net? They only have it compiled for one architecture.

Secondly, and more importantly, when I try to import a .eps file using pstoedit, it breaks up multicharacter strings into a series of single-character strings. The pstoedit man page calls this precision text mode, which is normally activated by using '-pti' or '-pta' from the command line. However, I'm not using those flags, and nothing I do turns off precision text mode. Using monospaced fonts in the input file doesn't make a difference. And using .svg, .fig, .dxf, and ps2ai output all produces the same result. Does anybody know how to disable precision text mode? As a last resort, I could use a version of pstoedit older than 3.16, but I don't know where to get such a version.
-Alan

Problem solved. The -mergetext option fixes this problem.