Garageband: "read error! Illegal format of file"

When I try to open a Garageband project I get a "read error! Illegal format of file" message.
Garageband then quits and sends a "report" to Apple (which apparently does me no good).
How can I get my project back? Is the whole song toast? just like that?
It was a REALLY good song too!

I have the same problem. Hope this can help:
Process:         GarageBand [1595]
Path:            /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/GarageBand
Identifier:      com.apple.garageband
Version:         6.0.5 (428.5)
Build Info:      GarageBand_App-4280500~3
App Item ID:     408980954
App External ID: 6848868
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [157]
Responsible:     GarageBand [1595]
User ID:         501
PlugIn Path:       /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/GarageBand
PlugIn Identifier: com.apple.garageband
PlugIn Version:    6.0.5 (428.5)
Date/Time:       2013-12-02 23:09:13.736 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9 (13A603)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  C6C2C75E-EBAC-36A7-6F93-44CAA8939774
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:
--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL  /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/GarageBand
    __TEXT                 0000000000001000-0000000000429000 [ 4256K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/GarageBand
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.music.apps.Logic              0x00acad02 LgDocumentClose + 130
1   com.apple.garageband                    0x000c71d5 0x1000 + 811477
2   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x98dd75ef -[NSObject release] + 47
3   com.apple.garageband                    0x000c828b 0x1000 + 815755
4   com.apple.Foundation                    0x99a09825 _decodeObjectXML + 1854
5   com.apple.Foundation                    0x998e452f _decodeObject + 55
6   com.apple.Foundation                    0x998e44f0 -[NSKeyedUnarchiver decodeObjectForKey:] + 175
7   com.apple.garageband                    0x00208b43 0x1000 + 2128707
8   com.apple.garageband                    0x00207d68 0x1000 + 2125160
9   com.apple.AppKit                        0x91d084e1 -[NSDocument _initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 228
10  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91d0812b -[NSDocument initWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 281
11  com.apple.garageband                    0x000c3256 0x1000 + 795222
12  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91f0d441 -[NSDocumentController makeDocumentWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 917
13  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91f1ca02 -[NSDocumentController(NSDeprecated) openDocumentWithContentsOfURL:display:error:] + 897
14  com.apple.garageband                    0x0006fb7c 0x1000 + 453500
15  com.apple.garageband                    0x0006f1cf 0x1000 + 451023
16  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91f10332 __86-[NSDocumentController closeAllDocumentsWithDelegate:didCloseAllSelector:contextInfo:]_block_invoke + 276
17  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91f10207 -[NSDocumentController closeAllDocumentsWithDelegate:didCloseAllSelector:contextInfo:] + 209
18  com.apple.garageband                    0x0006dca7 0x1000 + 445607
19  com.apple.garageband                    0x0006f14e 0x1000 + 450894
20  com.apple.garageband                    0x00068749 0x1000 + 423753
21  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91de12c5 __69-[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:]_block_invoke + 1907
22  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91a1ff7f -[NSApplication _reopenWindowsAsNecessaryIncludingRestorableState:registeringAsReady:completion Handler:] + 150
23  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91a1fed6 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _reopenWindowsIfNecessaryWithAppleEvent:completionHandler:] + 244
24  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91de0aef -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:] + 287
25  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91a1f785 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 521
26  libobjc.A.dylib                         0x98dd7304 -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:withObject:] + 77
27  com.apple.Foundation                    0x998f03fa __76-[NSAppleEventManager setEventHandler:andSelector:forEventClass:andEventID:]_block_invoke + 121
28  com.apple.Foundation                    0x998eff31 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 430
29  com.apple.Foundation                    0x998efd3b _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 218
30  com.apple.AE                            0x99c47b15 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned long, unsigned char*) + 387
31  com.apple.AE                            0x99c16ed6 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 44
32  com.apple.AE                            0x99c16dce aeProcessAppleEvent + 318
33  com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x942dc7c1 AEProcessAppleEvent + 55
34  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91a1b3a8 _DPSNextEvent + 1089
35  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91a1aad0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
36  com.apple.AppKit                        0x91a0d35c -[NSApplication run] + 727
37  com.apple.AppKit                        0x919f61f8 NSApplicationMain + 1165
38  com.apple.garageband                    0x0019cae0 0x1000 + 1686240
39  com.apple.garageband                    0x0000311a 0x1000 + 8474

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