Can't restore volume

When I originally installed 10.3 on my G4 PowerMac, I figured, since it was based on the Unix OS, I'd install the Unix File System, assuming there would be advantages.
After a few years of frustration with never being able to stream video clips from news sites that are in Windows Media format, I decided it was time to change the file system.
I was purchasing an external hard drive anyway, so I imaged my Panther Volume/partition to my external hard drive. I then reformatted the partition to Mac Extended.
I used my laptop with the PowerMac running as a Firewire drive, and also linked the external hard drive to the laptop. So far, so good.
When I try to restore from the .dmg, or mount the volume and restore in Disk Utility, I keep getting "directory or file not found" errors.
Obviously trying to copy all the files won't work.
Is there any way to restore, under the new file system, the setup I had before? I was hoping to avoid a fresh reinstall, then a lot of manual copying of files and libraries.
Are my problems related to my disk image still being a Unix FS? Is there any way anyone knows of to accomplish this? Are there particular "forbidden" files I have to remove to make this restore work? Or to make a simple copying of files work.
G4 PowerMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   Also own a MacBook Pro with 10.4 (Intel)

It took a couple of tries to find the right sequence, and the final solution was probably not the most direct one, but here's how I got it converted -
I used Learning+'s link to Data Backup and downloaded the demo version (fully featured, good for 30 days). I backed up the Unix image I had made before onto an Mac OS extended partition.
I then reinstalled 10.3 from scratch after reformatting the PowerMac to Mac Extended OS, ran all the software updates to get it to 10.3.9, then ran a "restore" from the third party software (Data Backup).
What I did wrong was I designated the destination wrong, so it copied everything into a separate folder instead of overwriting the matching files on the newly installed PowerMac G4.
However, just getting the files onto the disk is something I couldn't do with a direct copy from one drive to another, and something the Disk Utility couldn't do without imposing the Unix OS onto the drive.
Half the mission accomplished.
I then copied all the files from the new folder into their matching counterparts. My mistake was probably copying "system" files, as well. After that copying, I couldn't boot up from that hard drive.
No matter, I re-installed 10.3 yet again, choosing the option to retain all the user files that were already there. Once that was done, I did the software updates again, and once I had all the most recent versions restored, everything, including all applciations and registrations worked as before, but now I'm able to run Windows Media Player 9 since I'm no longer on the Unix OS format.
Thanks for everyone's help! The local computer shop told me there was really no clean way to do this (and I don't think they said that just to get me to bring it in - they're an honest shop).

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