Toast 6 Problems

I know these forums don't tend to address 3rd party app problems, but I can't seem to find a solution elsewhere.
First of all, after years of struggling with my long-in-the-tooth G3 imac, I am getting a new 17" core duo imac tomorrow (YAY!!) and I was hoping to install Toast 6 onto it. I tried copying it to my old computer so that I could put it into a folder that I have created to copy to the new machine, but when I tried to copy it off the CD, I got the following alert:
"the alias "butterlib" cannot be copied to theis destination because it doesn't support the alias."
I have found a couple of references to this dialog box on the net but no solutions. I'm assuming this file is in the Toast package file because after I abort the copy, the toast app is there on the desktop, but it has a generic app and will not load. The extra software (CD Spin Doctor etc.) won't copy properly either.
I'm pretty sure the CD is not corrupted or damaged because I can open toast from the CD and it loads perfectly.
Can anyone help me? Maybe I could copy the folder in terminal, would this help? (If so, can someone give me directions on how to do that as I've forgotten what little I knew about UNIX)
Ben

Toast 6 may not run on your Intel Mac. I don't know if anyone has tried it, though you can ask on the Intel Mac forums like the MacBook Pro and iMac Early 2006 forums on this board. According to the two Rosetta compatible listings I know of on the web, they mention that Toast 7 though is compatible, but nothing of Toast 6:
http://www.macintouch.com/imacintel/rosettacompat.html
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060126094146180

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