Issues opening Maya assets in Unity

Unity Engine
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I already submitted an error report but they suggested asking here too. So here I am.

I think I should first note that I am using the trial version of Unity 2.1.0f5 (16146)

My issue is this. I create some scenes in Maya2008 and then try to import them into unity. Unity then crashes. There are 2 odd things about this. One is that a programmer I work with is able to import the assets with no issues. The second odd thing is that originally I had an older version of Unity and because of some issues I decided to download the newest version. After updating I started to have these issues.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

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UPDATE: I was able to import the scene by first deleting the camera I was using in the Maya scene, and then importing.

Is this a known issue?