Erick Calder writes:
Double clicking on these (on OSX Panther) causes them to be mounted... so i'm wondering whether the mount process is failing or if the ISO contains bad filenames... could anyone check that or suggest some other way of extracting the contents of the ISO files?
I've seen this behavior with ISO's mounted by Mac OS X. If I recall the old Mac OS had something like a 32 character filename length limit, which is close to what you are seeing. When I hit this problem in the distance past I just used a Yellow Dog Linux box I had lying around to work around the issue. Perhaps there is a unix tool available via fink that would let you extra the ISO. Or perhaps you can use some options with command line mount to get the right ISO filesystem type.
-bri