Transferring and converting old ibook onto imac g5?

I have an old clamshell ibook with system 9. I am trying to transfer everything into the newer imac and, while it seems to arrive intact, I keep getting "error -10660" and I can't open my older documents in the new computer. I presume it has to do with how old the programs are, but I'm not sure--I'm not even getting an option to open through another (updated) program.
Any help?

You might have to take it in to the apple store. I don't know if this is a similar situation and I was eavesdropping so I don't have all the details, but a woman had a clam shell given to her. She finally upgraded to something running 10.4.7 (don't know what) and the less experienced geniuses couldn't help her transfer her data. One of the more experienced geniuses had to transfer her data to an external hard drive that sounded like it had both OS 9 and 10 on it. The data was converted and then transferred to the new laptop.

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