Problems restoring Backup after disk crash & exchange

Recently, the harddisk in my iBook started acting up and eventually died. I had made a backup three days prior to the crash, so I still have (most of) my data.
I brought my iBook to an Apple repair shop, where they mounted a new hard disk. So far so good.
Unfortunately, I've been trying to put my backup on the new disk for the last five days, without succes.
At first I thought it might have had to do with the diskimage I had, like "unreadable" names, but even after rewriting the image to a read/write one, and deleting or renaming the files that had unfortunate signs in it, I still keep getting an error, namely
" An error (2) occurred while copying. (No such file or directory) "
I can't find what's going wrong, I tried everything I could come up with - even simply extracting the files to the disk, but this of course skips most of the hidden files; and when doing this from within the terminal, I still get "Permission denied" errors...
If anyone could help me on this one, I'd be very grateful!
Ah yes, the backup is on an external FW disk, from which I can also boot - which is what I'm doing right now as well; so it's not that I can't write to the disk because it's busy as the bootdisk.

*\mood happy*
Booting still failed this morning... So I thought I'd delete some files from the image to make it copy faster...
I tried Silver Keeper again (when choosing a source, it asks whether one wants the destination to become bootable); and this time - it worked.
I have CCC as well, but haven't tried it.
Anyway - the disk has now been restored and is bootable, so I'm happy. I'll still have to copy back a few directories (the ones I deleted, together around 40gigs, homemade pictures and movies... Not really necessary for a diskrestore at first, I figured), but it works now.
Thank you again; for helping me, but also for teaching me (indirectly as well) a few things about the Mac filesystem.
*end of report with a successful recovery*
Piotr

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