It sounds like you've lost some information.  Are the CD and USB  
Flash drive formatted with HFS+? You might be losing the resource  
fork in the transition.  If possible, try creating an archive of the  
items on Mac OS 9 (e.g. with Stuffit) and then unstuff them on OS X.

Daniel

On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Simon Brown wrote:

> I've only
> recently upgraded to OSX and was surprised to find that all the OS9
> compiled scripts that I transfer either from CD or USB Flash drive  
> show up
> as Terminal documents, but can't be opened with Terminal, Script  
> Editor or
> Script Debugger. I tried using the OS9 version of Script Editor in the
> Classic environment but without success. It seems that the files just
> aren't recognised as valid Applescripts.