10.4.6 finder (copy / drag and drop) bug

Any one encounter this?
Brief summary: When copying files from an iMac to external firewire drive the finder (copy) grinds to a halt and eats up all the free disk space on the iMac hard drive
Detailed summary: iMac 20" G5 2.1GHz 1GB Ram 10.4.6 and an external LaCie 500GB firewire drive.
In an effort to move to Aperture I have begun cleaning up my iMac's hard drive which entails moving several gigabytes of jpegs, gif's, raw files, and Quark Xpress files, etc., to external hard drives.
All of these files are sorted into folders and sub-folders based on clients name. This is just a basic 'copy' from iMac to external hard drive. The iMac has about 50 GB of free hard drive space and the external hard drive has about 400 Gb free. Copying (drag and drop) any folder that has more than say a total of 7500 files inside causes the copying to start then grind to a halt. The odd part is that the free disk space on the source machine (iMac) gradually disappears during this process.
Size of the move doesn't seem to matter as it is only when the file count exceeds approx. 7500 that things go wrong. One move entailed 9000 or so files and was only 250 MB but managed to eat up all 50 GB of free space in minutes. The first clue that something is wrong is seeing the warning message pop up stating you start-up disk is full.
The only way to get the hard drive space back is to reboot the machine then all of the free disk space reappears. I have tried to relaunch the finder but that does not reclaim the missing free disk space. Also of note the memory usage never creeps up, as if this was some kind of memory leak. It stays pretty much constant through the whole process which is about 240MB.
Not sure if this matters but spotlight is currently told to ignore image files which is the bulk of what is (trying) to be moved. Also this behavior didn't occur under 10.4.5 or prior point releases.
Any ideas or thoughts?
Thanks,
-brian
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) LaCie external 500GB firewire drive

What is the format used on the external HD?
You did format it for Mac use (HFS+), right?
Yes, the external drive was reformatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) before being brought into use. I have several LaCie drives in different sizes from 250 Gb and up for back ups and never had an issue until now...
Seems to be finder related as if i open the top level folder and grab smaller groups of folders it works fine, just takes forever. So at least that is the work around. I was kind of hoping to just grab a bunch of folders start the copy and go do other things and come back and it would be done...
Thanks for the reply,
-brian

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Revision: 11574
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-09 10:53:35 -0800 (Mon, 09 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
Drag and Drop - Bug fixes:
- Added slight delay before drag-scrolling start.
- Single selection ctrl+drag fixed.
- Default drop indicator for List that doesn't have drop indicator specified in its skin. The default DI is specified through the new dropIndicatorSkin List style.
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- ListItemDragProxy incorrectly listed in spark-manifest.xml moved to SparkClassess.
QE notes: None
Doc notes: None
Bugs: SDK-24047, SDK-23999, SDK-23871
Reviewer: Glenn, Deepa
Tests run: checkintests, mustella (List, ListDragDrop)
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24047
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23999
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23871
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