Mac Issue:
I did a search for Unix Executable File, and according to some posts on this forum, this is a Mac 10.4 issue.
http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbth...?Number=517779
I'm really sorry for the amount of time you've spent helping me with this, when it seems there's a problem with how the mac reads the files.
For those files that have - as a name, and are Unix Executable Files, if I know the original name, I might try to rename the file and see if that works.