Importing keychains from OS 9?

Is it possible to get keychains from OS 9 to work in Tiger? I have three, but when I double click on a keychain it comes up with a message asking if I want to add the certificates to a keychain, I select login, and click okay, then nothing happens. I don't see any of my old items added or anything. Clicking on the keychain file again merely brings up the same message.
I also tried using the import function in one of the menus of keychain access, but when I browse to the location of the keychain files they are greyed out and cannot be selected. As an alternative I tried using keychain access in classic mode but that won't work either (I have a topic about that in the classic forum).
Any ideas of what I can do?

I fixed it myself. Creating an OS 9 boot disk from existing old installation CD failed spectacularly. And for some reason trying to open the keychains on Classic refused to work as it kept saying my password was wrong (which it wasn't).
In the end, I gave up. I dug up my old DVD backup of my entire OS 9.2.2 installation that I've kept since I upgraded to Tiger. Poped the disc in, grabbed the system folder off it, and then proceeded to load classic up from it.
Opened keychain access, entered my password, and it worked. Got what I needed. All this pain for the last few days when that's all I needed to do.
Why the **** the system folder I had installed for classic didn't work, I have no idea.

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