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In direct input mode, the validator seems to be actually trying to locate the file that is referenced by the @import, not just parsing the syntax. Poss confusion between case where it is given an HTML-containing-CSS file to validate and where it is given a reference to straight .css file or css fragment directly?
fixed in CVS by Julien.