Archiving song gb 2 vs. 3

Here's my problem. A friend and i are trying to record a song together. He's using gb 2 and i gb 3. He archived the file and zipped it, then sent it to me using yousendit. When i got it and unzipped it you could see it saying "unzipping track23.aiff", etc and then it produced two files. One looked like a typical gb file and the other had a .(something extension) - when i tried to open one file it gave me an error and the other opened but couldn't find any of the three tracks that were recorded on his end. Can anyone shed some light on this? Is this purely because of gb 2 vs. 3 or is there something else to try?
thanks.

just to follow up. My friend and i are now both running gb 3 and this is no longer a problem. I'm assuming it was coming from gb 2 to 3. Thanks for your help.

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