Opening old OS 9 WaveBurner 2 files in Waveburner (Logic Pro 8 version)

Question

Okay, so here's a very esoteric question that I cannot seem to get an answer for. I went to the Mac store in Glendale, CA and three of their techs could not help. I also don't see the question addressed on this forum, probably because it's so old/odd.
Anyway, I have dozens of old files from my days using WaveBurner Pro 2.1 on an old G4 with OS 9.2.2. I still have the tower and keep it soley for accessing these old files, which are fine on that system.
BUT, I would like to access all of these old files from my new MacBook Pro with OS 10.5.2. So I am contemplating buying Logic Pro 8, which is the only way to get access to WaveBurner for OS X.
The WaveBurner user Manual that accompanies Logic Pro 8 says on pg. 26:
"You can open old WB 2 (Mac OS 9) documents in WaveBurner 1.5. When opening
such a document, the document format will be converted to the WaveBurner version
1.5 format. When saving this document for the first time, a file selector dialog will be opened, so that the old document will not be overwritten automatically. Once saved in version WB 1.5"
I was excited to read this and decided to test it if is true. I dumped a few of my old OS 9/WB2 files to a flash drive and took them to the Mac Store to try opening them on their station from within WaveBurner 1.5 on OS X. NO LUCK.
Their techs could not figure it out, the system could not recognize the files because they read as Unix, and despite changing the extensions and trying every trick to open the old WB2 files, nothing worked. My old WB2 files were there, but the WaveBurner 1.5 app would not recognize or open them.
OS X also won't open my ".snd" files (which form the tracks for the WB2 mixes), unless I change their extension to ".aiff".
Does anybody know if it is possible to access these old WB2 files in OS X? I assume there must be a way, because the manual says it's possible and I'd like to believe that's true. But I followed their instructions and tried everything I know as well, and nothing works. Am I just missing something?
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. If I cannot get this to work, then I may not buy Logic, since a big motivator for me is to get access to WaveBurner and still be able to work with my old files on my new laptop with OS X.
Thank you!

Answer 1

I upgraded from a G5 dual/Logic 8 to a Mac Mini Server/Logic 9 earlier this year without any problems. There are far too many loops to be able to provide an answer to that particular question, but I would point out that some people have found the odd loops missing from the downloaded content (myself included, although I don't use them much and it wasn't that important to me), so I guess the sensible option would be to back up the ones you use, or back up the whole lot, if that's easier ( if you're not keeping your old machine).