Can't copy images to desktop ("Item busy")

I'm trying to copy photos from an album in iPhoto 5 to the desktop, but I can't because I get the following error message:
The selected items cannot all be put in the same location because at least one of them named "DSC00003.JPG" is busy
I'm able to copy entire albums on to the desktop, so it looks like some sort of album corruption.
I've double-clicked the mentioned locked image (DSC00003.JPG) which looks fine.
But still thinking that this image might be the culprit I mark off everything except that image in the album, then drag the contents to the desktop's folder. Same error message, but with "DSC00002.JPG" being busy this time.
Any solutions?
And more importantly, what has caused this problem in the first place?
It's worth mentioning that I've tried all the troubleshooting tricks that I know of:
-logged out, then in again
-restarted the computer
-turned the computer off, then powered it up again
-checked and repaired file-permissions (using "Disk utility" as well as "Applejack")
None of this has fixed my problem.
Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz, Superdrive)   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I am not sure, but I am thinking some of the photos
in the album have the same file name so you get that
error message.
I did some further investigation, and I believe you're right because I found a few files with the same names, but it appears that there are two naming schemes in iPhoto:
1) If you click on the "i" (information) icon at the bottom left of the iPhoto window there's information about the photo, among them is "Title". This seems to be changeable
2) Even though I changed the name of the duplicates (using the method above) I could find, I looked closely and found out that I had given a few photos unique, descriptive names (as opposed to something like "img_00023.jpg"), but I still get that complaint.
So, is there a way I can change the actual filename? I know I'm not supposed to dig into iPhoto's files from the Finder, so I'm not going to mess around with that, but hope I can fix it from within iPhoto itself.
Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz, Superdrive) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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