has anyone seen a converter from svideo to component video??

Why would you WANT to? Component is a better signal than svideo. You would be taking a "worse" s-video signal and then running it into a "better" component input.

This wouldn't improve the quality of the picture just because you're using the better input. You'd still be starting with the "Worse" s-video output to begin with. In fact, the additional conversion circuitry would make it look slightly worse than if you just ran it into an s-video input on your TV set.