Of course it depends on your needs, but I think that downgrading from utf8 to latin1 generally isn't a good idea. If it is possible then consider upgrading the mysql server.
I have utf8 on mysql 4.0 servers. I know they are limitations/problems but it has been running smoothly on my sites so far.
Skip the iconv step and see how it works for you.
Another option (the one I used) was
1) create the tables (empty) on the 4.0 server
(kernel/sql/mysql/kernel_schema.sql ) 2) dump only the datas from the 4.1 database
Firstly: for the love of God (or whatever you love), keep everything everything in utf from the beginning. Saves so much headache.. i know..
For dump conversion see my solution on this thread: http://ez.no/community/forum/general/convert_from_iso_8859_1_encoding_to_utf_8/re_convert_from_iso_8859_1_encoding_to_utf_8__9
It has worked for me. But its crude, so heed the warnings. Might not work for you. But trying wont hurt.
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