Drag and drop copy can skip some files

I just got a new iMac with 10.5. I hooked up an external drive (USB) with a copy of my old G4 10.4 drive.
I have found that if I drag and drop a folder with many files inside to the new machine, most but not all of them get copied. For instance I dragged over my Corel drawer inside my documents drawer into my new machines documents drawer. Well it skipped about 30+ files out of about 500. It skipped one sub folder and other loose files. Once I figured out which files and folders it missed I was able to drag those over again and it worked.
This is really bad when you are dragging lots of files and trusting it to do them all. No errors or warnings popped up either. I initially noticed it because I was looking for a particular file that did not get copied, then I looked and saw that the # of files in the drawers was different from the original. Had to put old and new side by side to figure out what was missing.
Anybody heard of this or have a similar problem? Or better yet a solution?
Thanks!

I am having the same problem. I just bought a USB Hard-drive and was copying a 2.7 M folder from one HD to the USB and it leaves out like 15 files. I tried copying to the desktop and it does the same thing. I can open the folder, cmd-A, cmd-c, then paste and it took all the files. Very strange.

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