Quote Originally Posted by kleinma
well just because I was out of ideas... I changed the file to .bak and what do you know.. but it worked to restore
LOL. I was going to suggest that when I saw your second post.

Anyway, do you have any say with your webhost? It seems that the backup extension will only cause a minor problem, but if they can send it to you with the proper .bak extension, then changing the extension would be one less thing you would have to do when restoring.