Error code -36 when copying to Mac formatted external drive

I'm trying to move my iPhoto library to an external drive to save space on my iMac's hard drive. It starts to copy it fine but after a few minutes stops with the error "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “iPhoto Library” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)"
The external drive is an iomega minimax and is formatted as "Mac OS extended (journaled)". I'm running Mac OS 10.6.3 and the iPhoto Library is for iPhoto '08 version 7.1.5.
Help! Thanks.

Kids birthday party today - sorry about the delay in replying.
This is an interesting problem, if disk integrity and space are not the problem.
My next step would be to use the command line to copy the library to your external disk. To do this, open Terminal and type:
cp -R ~/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library /volumes/yourextenaldiskname/Pictures/
Note that, if you have any spaces in your external disk name, you will need to put a backslash in front of the spaces.
Let me know how it goes.
Cheers,
Rodney

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