Extracting a single directory from a partial incremental dump?

Somehow I'm not successful in extracting the contents of a single
directory
from a partial incremental multi-volume dump:

  > star -xpU -restore -force-restore -multivol new-volume-script=true \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_01.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_02.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_03.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_04.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_05.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_06.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_07.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_08.tar \
  f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_09.tar home/felix/.elmo
  Volhdr: <none>
  star: WARNING: This dump is a 'partial' dump and not a 'full' dump.
  star: WARNING: An incremental restore may not work correctly.
  Validating this dump against restored filesystem...
  Dump level 0 on empty filesystem, starting restore.
  star: pfind_node(): Not a directory 'bin' for 'bin/dd' flags 0 i_dir
  0.
  star: padd_node(): caller 'sym_addrec'.
  star: padd_node(): Not a directory 'bin' for 'bin/dd' flags 0 i_dir 0.
  star: padd_node(bin/dd, 4, 0, 0) = NULL
  star: WARNING: No old inode number for 
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for 
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /media
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /root
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /sbin
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /proc
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /home
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /boot
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /usr
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /var
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /tmp
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /w2k
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /opt
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /mnt
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /lib
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /etc
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /dev
  star: WARNING: No new inode number for /bin
  star: Panic: cannot add node 'bin/dd'.

I've heard several times on this list that working with incomplete 
dumps may cause trouble, but I'm not sure why.  Anyway, at the moment 
I wonder:

  Why is the above command failing and is there a work-around?

Oh, I almost forgot:

  > star -version
  star: star 1.5a58 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
  [...]
-- 
Felix E. Klee