Can't open application...because it's not supported on this architecture

Hello, and I apologize if I'm posting this question in the wrong place...
I had a folder with over 30 gigs of music, videos, pictures, and other miscellaneous files that I wanted to password protect - something simple, when I clicked on the folder, I wanted a little window to pop-up prompting me for a password. I found such a program online, and it worked like a charm (I now can't think of the program's name and I wasn't able to find it again).
I backed up my computer to an external hdd, deleted that folder, but was able to access that folder from the hdd just as I had when it was on my computer (meaning, clicking on the folder, when the hdd was connected to my computer, still prompted me for a password).
I upgraded my hdd's software recently, and I'm now having problems with this folder. The icon no longer looks like a regular blue folder, as the icon now looks like a couple white pieces of paper, behind the Application "A", behind a white circle with a line through it. Clicking on this folder from my external hdd brings up the error message in my subject line. I moved the folder back to my computer's hd (icon remains the same - circle with line, etc.), and the same error message pops up when I try to click on it.
FYI...looking at the folder's info shows that it's still the original size of my files - 30+ gigs. Here's some details on my computer and external hdd:
Black MacBook 13"
Leopard version 10.5.8
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
1 GB 6772 GHz DDR2 SDRAM Memory
Western Digital My Passport Essential (240 GB, if I remember correctly)
Using WD Smartware version 1.3.2.5
I'm not incredibly computer saavy, so I'm sure I left out some information necessary to troubleshoot this problem. Please let me know what's needed or if anything needs a better explanation, and I'll try my best.
Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered. I really don't want to lose my 30+ gigs of data!!

One other thing to try....
On this folder click on it once.
Apple + I to bring up information on the folder.
Scroll down to sharing and permissions.
Set your account to Read & Write.
Then on the little Gear icon at the bottom (to the right of the + - Icons) pull down that menu and Apply to Enclosed Objects.
I have seen several cases where if you don't have Write access to an app (or something within) you get the Unsupported architecture message incorrectly. Changing permissions like this fixes the problem if this is the case.
Shawn

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