Server Utilities :: Importing From 9i To 11g - Getting ORA-29339 Error Because Of Block Size?

We are working on migrating from 9.2.0.4 to 11.2 and we've set up a test machine so that we could test the install and the import (as well as test additional 11g features that we want to begin using).

So we created the database and created all of the tablespaces beforehand.

Our import command is

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/imp system/manager FULL=Y BUFFER=140000 FILE=/dbexport/Lhtech.exp VOLSIZE=2000M GRANTS=Y INDEXES=Y COMMIT=Y IGNORE=Y

However, when we run the import, we get the errors like so:

Import: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Oct 5 15:01:19 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
Export file created by EXPORT:V09.02.00 via conventional path

[code]....

First of all, the block size in our "newly" created tablespaces is 8192...and these are obviously trying to recreate the tablespaces with a block size of 2048.

1) Why is it not ignoring these create tablespace commands when those tablespaces already exist?

2) how in the world do we get around the block size issue? We've tried nearly everything we could find, but we've still not had any luck.