Collection of stacked images cannot be exported

I've been thinking my catalog is corrupt for the last five hours, but now I think there's a different problem. My catalog passes integrity checks and can be backed up and optimized and everything - the only problem is with stacking.
I created a collection, and added all my stacked images to it. I tried exporting the collection as a catalog - fail. I tried selecting all the images in the collection and exporting that - fail. I tried selecting all the images in the collection, switching to "All Photographs" so that I was not in a collection context, and exporting only those selected images - fail. I seem to be able to export any other combination of images and/or collections just fine.
There's a problem with exporting stacked images, but I'm not sure what it is.

I had about 250 stacked images that I added to a collection. I expanded all stacks, selected all the stacked images, and a created a collection from the selected images. The following steps are in the original post. I can export one or two stacks here and there, but trying to export all the images in the collection (as a collection or as a 'select all') fails.
I have my collections set to back up every time I open Lightroom, with verification. I've also optimized the catalog a couple of times. It still doesn't report any errors.
The system is a MacBook Pro CoreDuo 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, ATI graphics card, OS X Leopard 10.5.6, and Lightroom 2.2.
Thanks for trying help! I'm at a loss.

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