Corrupted mp3 files

I have two Macs running Leopard (10.5.1) and every time I copy an mp3 file over the network from one to the other, the mp3 file gets corrupted somehow. Basically, the mp3 will sound fine on the Dual G4 but once moved to the Powerbook via the internal network, it will loop random segments of the song in an unexplainable way. I've tried this over and over with tons of different mp3s and have the same result every time.
However, I can take the exact same mp3 file and upload it to my page online and when I download it to the Powerbook, the mp3 file works perfectly. I really can't figure out the source of the mp3 file corruption here... network transfers get corrupted but downloads from the personal web space are fine. Anyone ever experience anything like this?

What exactly is wrong with them?

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