Can't drag to desktop in iPhoto 6

I'm using iPhoto 6.0.6, and it won't let me drag any photos to the desktop, it gives me a white circle with a line through it on my cursor when I try. I can drag fine within the program, but not from any albums or the library to the desktop. I've tried the suggestions I found by searching this forum - disabling and re-enabling Helvitica in Font Book, trashing the prefs file, and just restarting the computer - but nothing has made a difference. It's really starting to drive me nuts, because I have to go manually find each file when I want to do something with it outside of iPhoto. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Claire

Claire
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
Regards
TD

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