Copying backup from Panther onto a Tiger machine

Ok, I have gotten a replacement Mac for my Dual 2.5, a Quad 2.5 (long story) Anyway, before I sent my old machine away, I created a exact copy of my hardrive onto an external. Now that my new computer is in, I want to get my old files and apps back.
How do I got about this? Just drag and drop from the firewire drive onto the new computer? My old machine had Panther and the new one has Tiger, will this be an issue when copying profiles?
thanks in advance for the help!

The new machine can't boot into 10.3. However, you can use the migration assistant to move the old data over:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25773

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feinberj wrote:
I've got filevault turned on for my mac Mac Mini (10.6.2). I'm using Time Machine to back up to a firewire drive. There's plenty of space - my Mini hd has 250 Gb of 500 used, and I'm backing up to a 750Gb partition on the external drive. The initial backup went OK, and when I logged out it backed up my filevault-protected home directory. When I logged back in, I was able to browse the Backups.backupdb on the external drive, go to the users directory, and open the sparsebundle that was my filevault-protected home directory (after entering the password). I can browse through this backup of my home directory. However, when I try copying files from the backup of the home directory, I get an error:
The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "(filename)" can't be read or written. (Error code -36).
I get this error for some files, but not all of them. I've tried running BatChmod to reset permissions on all files in my home directory, and then erasing the backup drive and having Time Machine recreate the backup. However I'm still having this problem.
I have also tried restoring the entire hard drive (to a 3rd external HD) by booting from the 10.6 DVD and going through the full-restore process. All of my files are fine when I restore using this method.
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