Dialog box to Select Directories...

Hi,
I need to develop a Java tool where you have an option for the customer to select a directory in which a group of files wiil be saved. To implement this, when I invoked the JFileChooser.SAVE_DIALOG and set the filter to display only directories, it opens the same Dialog to save FILES ??? (JDK Version : 1.4 OS:MS-Windows 2000). In the Dialog box. there is a Label which says "File Name: "
This is misleading and confusing to the customer, who maybe a novice when it comes to computers. Hence this issue has come up and I need to fix this. I came up with alternate solutions like popping a confirmation box etc.. but the customer doesnt want to see the default dialog box as it is very confusing.
I wish I could show you the snapshot which highlights this problem, to make the problem clear, but that is not possible.
I browsed the net with little help. Please tell me what is the best way to go about this as I have no clue of where to go from here?

I'm not going to write code for you? Is this for your
job? Do you want to get paid for something I do?
Why don't you write the code? When you find a problem
or a bug you can't resolve, then ask a question
here.
Please Sir,
None of the questions that I have raised here were EVER directed to you or anyone in particular. This is an open forum and if you are not willing to share your hardwork, its fine...
.....and by the way, it never should be the question of your code and my code. Its not that I cant write code for it...its just that I dont believe in re-inventing the wheel.
I know that this is a known limitation in Java and someone must have spent a lot of time and energy on this dialog...no use if everyone broke thier heads on the same problem...
...and that is the very idea behind creating such public forums....so that people communicate and share instead of re-inventing the wheel.
- Vijay

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