Disk Utility

Hello.  I'm hoping someone can answer a quick question for me regarding Disk Utility in Snow Leopard and creating .dmg files.
I have created a few setting a picture file in the "view options" area to appears at the top of the window.  Everything seems to work fine except when the .dmg file is opened on a system pre 10.6.x the image doesn't appear.  I have created a bunch using 10.5.x and never had this issue.
Does anyone know if this is expected behavior using the Disk Utility in 10.6.x?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

1. Whether or not permissions are set to be ignored on the drive. This can be changed by selecting it in the Finder and choosing Get Info from the File menu.
2. A drive or partition must have Mac OS X 10.2 or newer installed on it for that option to be available. The required database otherwise doesn't exist for that partition.
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