>>> This looks like an endianess mismatch; did you already mention on
>>> what
>>> architecture you are on?
>
>> MacPro, Leopard
>
> Did you just move from a PPC-based Mac to an Intel-based one?
> If so, you're out of luck --- you need to go back to the PPC
> to make a dump of those files.
>
No, I just re-installed my Intel Mac. First I just upgraded from Tiger
to Leopard (without getting my database to run; but I didn't put much
effort into it); and then I completely erased the disk and installed
Leopard from scratch.
