Error message when backing Music Library up to external drive

I am trying to copy my iTunes music folder from my laptop onto a firewire drive to back it up. I keep getting the same message "Sorry, the operation cannot be completed because an unexpected error occurred. (Error code -50)" Copying other files works fine, this only happens with the iTunes folder. How can I fix this?
PowerBook G4 titinium Mac OS X (10.4.3) LaCie external 150 GB drive

Well that probably rules this out:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25532
If you can't copy the folder Music>iTunes for backup then I would try to backup Music>iTunes>iTunes Music>Artists folder one by one to see if it was an individual folder that was causing the problem.
Are you just using Drag and Drop for the copy?
I've found reference to your error message here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106947
but it appears to be for an earlier release of Mac OS X.
Sorry, I'm running out of ideas.
Hope someone else can help with this.
Regards,
Colin R.

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