Unable to unlock encrypted disk images created with Snow Leopard using Lion

Anyone else unable to unlock encrypted disk images created with Leopard and Snow Leopard with Lion? I know that they made changes with the release of FileVault 2 on Lion and Snow Leopard cannot use Lion encrypted disks but I thought it was backwards compatible where Lion should still be able to work with Snow Leopard created images (it was in the pre-release versions of Lion).
When attempting to mount an encrypted disk image created with Snow Leopard on Lion the normal password prompt appears but then just reappears every time the password is entered and does not unlock and mount the image. I'm positive the correct password is being entered and it works just fine when done on a machine running Snow Leopard.

Not in cases when the computer successfully boots to one OS but produces three beeps when an attempt is made to boot it to another. If it really was a RAM problem that serious, the computer wouldn't get as far as checking the OS version, and it has no problems booting Lion. In the event of a minor RAM problem, it wouldn't produce three beeps like that at all.
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Advice above is 'spot on' : Do 'save as disk image'INSIDE iDVD. The disk image should be playable in anything which PLAYs DVD VIDEO_TS Folders: DVD Player, Mpegstreamclip, VLC.... I'm sure the only reason it took almost 3 hours this way is because iDVD Wasn't finished encoding/finalising the project....
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I'm running an early 2011 MacBook Pro. I originally ran this machine with Snow leopard for quite a while. I've got 8 GB RAM and lots of free space on my hard drive. I upgraded to Lion and it works well. But I want to boot to Snow Leopard from an external drive to run some old Rosetta apps. However, I couldn't run the Snow Leopard installation disk on the Lion Machine. When I tried to boot to the installation disk, I would get a beeping sound during startup, three beeps in a row - repeating, and it would not boot. So I connected the external to another machine running Snow Leopard and I installed a new version of Snow Leopard on the external drive. But my Lion machine will not boot from that external. I am able to select the Snow Leopard drive in the Start Up Disk pane in the prefs. But when I restart, I just get the three beeps. I must be missing something here. Any help would be appreciated.

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When I try to enter a time machine with Snow Leopard backups Lion I get an error code -6584 ... how to fix?

Hi.
I had a first gen time machine with backups all on Snow Leopard.
This died (power supply), and I bought a new time capsule, because to fix the old one would cost nearly the same amount.
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I got the old time capsule fixed, so it powers up. I even extended my current wireless network with it. I can see inside it -- all the data that I dragged onto its HD in the past is present, and the "Sparse Bundle" containing the data for the time capsule save-states is present too.
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I tried entering the time machine via WiFi and via ethernet, to no avail.
Can anyone help me to access these old save states on my old "snow leopard" time capsule?
I was thinking maybe I need to try to access it from a machine with Snow Leopard?
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Thanks in advance.
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As Paul indicated, there's no sense in waiting. Lion, while announced, still has not received a release date. In addition the current architecture (Sandy Bridge) is the latest and greatest. Intel and Apple are always working on new stuff, so even if you wait for Lion there's a new machine being assembled in China the day you purchase the "latest and greatest."
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I am hoping to install Lion on a disk image of my Mac Pro. This disk image is currently on my desktop. The image seems to function well, and I'm now whittling down it's size. I haven't yet created a partition on my Mac Pro, in part because I'm hopeful that the disk image is all I'll need.
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Thanks, Pondini. Your answer is probably correct, but it is a bit over my head. I found, today, that Lion said it was installed on my external hard drive; but I see no evidence of it being there. (I had installed Lion to an external hard drive, to which I'd already downloaded a bootable copy of my Mac Pro Snow Leopard.)
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Then as long as they're all Core 2 Duos, the drive should start them.
I'm not sure what you find confusing -- let me try it this way:
When you install OSX on an external HD, that will be a complete installation -- at least one user account, all the default Apple applications, etc., as if it's a separate computer.
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