Archiving photos

Hi there,
I have looked through the forums and don't find the exact answer to this. I just upgraded to Leopard(unwillingly, it was the only way to read my daughter's new Nano...). I have 3000 photos in iphoto and an Apple support tech told me it was too many and was taking up the 9gb I needed to load leopard.
Does that seem right? that I can't have more than 3000 photos on this machine? I have noticed too that my Retrospect Express won't back up because it says the volume is full. Can the photo numbers be affecting that too?
So, I thought I would put some on a DVD. But when I put in the DVD it spits it back out with no notice or error message. I am afraid when I got this years ago, I might have said "No" to the DVD recordable option. If so, what media can I use to download and store my photos??
Appreciate any and all help!!
thanks
Liisa

Hi Liisa;
Exactly where is Retrospect Express attempting to backup to?
Could you please provide us with information to exactly how many disks you have and how they are partitioned?
Allan

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