All of a sudden- bz2 files!

Since yesterday, I have been seeing lots of bz2 extensions on downloaded files, in most cases files that should be .dmg. All the decompressing utilities I have create a .dmg which will not mount. The error is a Warning as if a bad or truncated download had occured. The error dialog contains <filename. and "Not recognized." This is on some, but not all.
I was able to determine that bz2 was a Unix compression format. I ran the Unzip from terminal, but get the same result and error.
Where did this come from?
TiBook G4 & iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
TiBook G4 & iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Addendum:
I have discovered the renaming the file - removing the .bz2 works. The question still stands.
At http://perian.sourceforge.net/, there is a note with a hint (this was the first file and site where I experienced this anomaly):
"Note: Perian requires 10.4.7. If you have problems mounting the download, make sure that it is a .dmg and not a .dmg.bz."
TiBook G4 & iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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