gpg bug/problem?

[Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>]

hi.

a couple days ago i decided to change over from pgp5 to gnupgp.  it's gone
fairly painlessly except.... some keys that i try to import give me this
error no matter what i do:

heyzeus(larry)$ gpg --recv-keys E8DA6B27  
gpg: requesting key E8DA6B27 from wwwkeys.us.pgp.net ...
gpg: key E8DA6B27: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1


now pgp5 handled this key just fine so i'm assuming it's a
bug/incompatibility but before i bug the author i'd like to know if i'm just
being stupid or if there is a known work around.

i'm using gnupg 1.0.0-3 from unstable.

adam.