Problems exporting photos in iPhoto 6

When I try to export photos from iPhoto to my hard drive, I get an error message that says:
"Directory Exists: exists as a directory at this destination. Aborting export."
This directory doesn't exist - I've tried creating several different folders, but to no avail. If I drag the photos directly to my desktop from iPhoto they work fine, but I can't export resized photos this way.
Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, is there a fix for it? Thanks in advance!

LH , i quote you, "
As I said previously if you want a BIG image export as a TIFF and it will be very big - but not any better quality than the 1.2 mb JPEG
and something is wrong with your observations - if you have a 9 mb JPEG (which is not really likely)"
first let me say, i am not blind and i am looking at the info on the image in iPhoto. second, i know how to read the info. i have been doing this for a long time. i have some images that have loaded higher than that from the camera. i have a full frame camera with 25mb and it takes higher mb images.
keith, yes alitle is understandable but that much is not. i am not changing the size when exporting. also, the only problem with exporting original, i might have tweaked or cropped in iPhoto.

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