Cannot export in iPhoto 6.0.6

Having some trouble exporting photos in iPhoto on my MBP. I have tried selecting single pics , mutiple pics in a single roll and pics from multiple rolls. Destination is either the desktop, a folder on the desktop or a kingston 1gb usb drive. I have also tried both the original and JPG format.
After selecting the images and destination I get the message 'unable to create /Users/login name/destination/'.
Like I said I've tried several options but can't export. I was able to copy and paste the files from my iPhoto originals library onto the usb drive, but what's the trick with iPhoto?
MBP C2D 2.16/1GB Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMac G4 700/512MB

solar servant:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You do know you've posted in the iPhoto 5 forum and iPhoto 6.
Are you able to drag a thumbnail from iPhoto's window to the desktop successfully? I suggest you repair disk permissions with Disk Utility and then select your User folder, type Command-I, and in the Info window that comes up set the following:
You can: read and write
Owner: your admin name
Access: read and write
Group: you admin name again
Access: read and write
Others: read only
Or download and run BatChmod on your home folder with the settings shown here, putting your administrator login name, long or short, in the owner and group sections. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.
Then click on the Apply to enclosed items... button. Now try again.

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