[dnanian]

It certainly should be bootable, Scott. But it's quite strange that when you tried to restore with Disk Utility you got a spinning beachball -- I assume this was *from* Disk Utility itself?

If the folders are there, you certainly should have the data there, and it should be bootable. You did a Smart Update or Erase, then copy when you did "Backup - all files" (which, indeed, is what you should have done)?

I would *NOT* do an erase and install with Tiger right now, since you don't seem to have a backup that's bootable. Instead, why not try an "archive and install" backup?

Could you send your SuperDuper!.log -- from the internal drive, it's in your Home folder under Library/Logs -- to me at support -at- shirt-pocket.com? I'll take a look (tomorrow morning, since it's 11:30pm) and see if I can figure out what's going on here...

One other thing to check: verify with OWC that your drive has up-to-date firmware...