Disk Image Blues

Help! I needed to do a clean install of my system, so I backed everything up as .dmg files and put them on a local server. Once I'd finished the clean install I went to get my .dmg files from the server to re-install my documents and apps on my nice new system.
The disk image containing my applications unpacked itself fine, as did the one with my documents in it. But the one containing my entire iTunes library says that it can't mount due to error -199. I've trawled the web looking for any mention of this, and can't find it anywhere. It's a big file: over 540MB, but just this morning I installed Xcode, which was over 800MB. So I don't understand what's wrong, and if anyone can help, I'd be very grateful.
iMac (G3, Bondi Blue) Mac OS X (10.4.4)

-199 = mapReadErr
map inconsistent with operation
Not sure what that means exactly but it seems to suggest a corrupted image - perhaps others can suggest fixes?

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