Mysterious Unix Files

Ever since upgrading to 10.4 I seem to be getting an increasing number of my files converted to Unix Executable File types. The file Icon is a black box with "exec" in the upper left corner. The files are rendered useless. What is causing these files to appear/be converted to this type?

Couldn't the problem also be that for some unknown reason the executable bit for the file has been set? I seem to remember that if the resource fork is missing AND the executable bit is set, Finder assumes the file is a UNIX executable. I believe this has happened to people who attempted to copy fonts from an OS 9 machine to a FAT 32 disk or Windows Server, and then into OS X. Instead of a font they have a UNIX executable file that does nothing at all. I think I've seen this happen with material archived to ISO 9660 CDs and then copied to OS X. While my recent pdf docs do not have the executable bit set, some of my old ones do, however they still have their resource forks and so open with Preview (my default pdf application). For example, when I do a "ls -l" command on a new pdf file, I get this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 francine francine 39449 Aug 14 2002 smug.pdf
An old file shows this:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 francine francine 120176 Apr 15 1999 2dedits.pdf
If I strip the resource fork and delete the pdf extension from that file, the Finder slaps a UNIX executable icon on it, since it no longer has a clue as to what the file it is supposed to be, and Preview will no longer open it. If I add the pdf extension back it opens in Preview just fine.
Francine
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