Mysteriously unreadable Unix/JPEGs

I have scores of JPEGs that I removed from my late mother's 1st gen. iMac running OS 9.2.2. They were perfectly readable/viewable when they were on her machine, however now that I am trying to see them on my PPC G5/OS10.5.5 they have morphed into "Unix Executable FIles" that, when double-clicked, launch the app Terminal. A little window of gobbledy-gookcomes up and the only real info contained therein says: "cannot execute binary file." If I drag/drop the file onto the Photoshop icon I get a warning saying PS does not recognize the type of file.
The odd thing is that hey would appear to contain all the original data since most are in the over-1 meg file-size range.
Are these photos lost to me forever or is there some other app out there that can crack 'em open?

Take a look at the name: does it have an extension? Thus, when you do GetInfo on the file is its name "somepicture" or "somepicture.jpg"? If the files are missing the extension ".jpg" simply add the extension, you should then be able to view the pix.
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