Can't Copy/Paste to Ext. HDs Connected to AEBS

I have a MacBook Pro (unibody) and three OWC Mercury Elite Pro external hard drives hooked up to an Airport Extreme Base Station. One is a Time Machine Backup that I've been using for several months, with seemingly no problems. Time Machine backups occur on schedule and they write to the HD just fine.
The other two are brand-new purchases. One is intended to be a primary network hard drive, while the other is a backup network drive.
All three drives came to me formatted for Mac.
I connect all three drives to the AEBS via a DLink powered USB 2.0 hub. Here's the problem:
When I connect them, I instantly see them in the Finder window, but I am unable to copy any data to any of them (not even to the one I'm using for Time Machine). I selected a 50 Kb PDF and tried to copy it to each drive, but when I do, I get the following error message:
*The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8058).*
Please help me understand what I'm doing wrong here; I'm at a loss. BTW, in the Airport Utility, "File Sharing" is enabled (with Airport Extreme Password). "Remember this password in my keychain" is also checked, and "Share Discs over WAN" is not checked.
Any help is really appreciated!
Scott
PS - I took the UBS hub out of the chain and connected a couple of the HDs directly to the AEBS with the same result (the error above)
Message was edited by: ScottC_PSU
Message was edited by: ScottC_PSU

I found out something interesting tonight. I reformatted the drives (same settings) and then was able to copy/paste to them. What I've noticed is that if I copy a file, and then click "Edit-Paste Item" from the menu at the top of the screen, everything works fine. If I right-click on the ext. HD from within Finder, and choose "Paste Item", I get the error mentioned above.
I'm pretty new to Macs and assumed that these two commands performed identical functions. Why would they differ? Is this an error in Snow Leopard?

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