I asked the question in the Cinema Forum in case it was something I was doing wrong in C4D - it wasn't, but someone there came up with the solution.

DON'T SAVE AS .EPS!

When I followed the advice from contrafibbularities, and saved as a normal .ai file (choosing Illustrator 8 - good catch there, Archdruid!) the spline imported smooth as silk.

I'm now halfway through following the C4D part of the tut.

I won't say 'so far no problems' because as soon as I say that something will go wrong.

So I'll just say thanks for looking around further on this for me, I really really do appreciate it.

Lol, I'll take a look at the video tut you mention, & I'll let you know what sort of Celtic accent it is - as I'm part Celtic myself and more use to UK regional/country accents being English, I should be able to tell.

Just looked/listened - he's Scottish.  Luckily not too broad, so easily understandable.  I'll watch the whole vid later though when I've finished with this tut. 

I'm wary of video tuts since they are usually too fast and people do things off screen and don't tell you what they did.  But it would be nice to find a second video tut maker that is good enough to follow - so far I only know of 1, and that's 3dkiwi from C4D Cafe, but he's gone on to higher versions of c4d so those are useless to me now.

I'll also look at the vid you link to in the message above - gosh, I'll be spoilt for choice, won't I?

One other thing, you mentioned purging the history caches - but I couldn't even find history in Illustrator - can you tell me where it is?

(No need to purge caches, as the problem is solved) (See Pic)

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