On 21. Feb 2007, at 16:33, Lawrence Goodman wrote:
[...] perhaps there is some way to convert the file before I import it into Final Draft. Thanks.
If you press ⌃⌘T and enter ‘ascii’ you will see a Transliterate Word to ASCII (do a ⌘A first, to make it transliterate the entire document).
Though your problem happened while pasting into Final Draft? It really ought to handle that.