Finally, something snapped and I picked up one of the dsk packages someone else made probably less than legally, just to see if Qemu could boot anything at all. And of course, that loaded just beautifully.
So, there must be something wrong with every single one of the images I've attempted to use to boot. That leaves the question of how I'm supposed to make one -- assuming that Qemu can't boot directly from a physical CD, which I have available. hdiutil seems to be less than helpful.
Incidentally here's what the present qemu.command file is like:
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#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
./qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -M mac99 -m 512 -boot d -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' -prom-env 'boot-args=-v' -prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' -drive file=~/Disks/outfile.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom -netdev user,id=network01 -device sungem,netdev=network01
There's a G4 tower sitting next to me, so if it would be helpful to use it for some step in this process, I have that option.