Exporting files from lightroom: problem with filename

Hi!
I am a sports-photographer and i use lightroom since version 1.0. i really like it to edit my pictures and it is very easy to use for importing my files and setting the meta-datas.
but i have one problem, that forces me to open up each file i export once again to rename it, what costs a lot of time:
when i export my files, i can choose a preset to give it a name, which works well. but i would need it like this: "my preferences"001 (f.e. oliver-climbing-01oct09001) and raising in numbers.
lightroom ALWAYS makes a "-" between my presets and the numbers.
does anyone know if there is a possibilty to export the file and give it a name without this "-" in fornt of the number?
glad to find a solution here!
cu or read u
oliver

hello!
thanx for the fast answer!
u are right, but this is not my problem:
i want lightroom to count my exported pictures starting with 001, then 002, then 003 at the end and so on
but if i use the sequency-number or anything else, it does not generate a new name like 001, then 002,
but it does make 001 and then 001-2 and 001-2...
u can see that in the screenshot i made down here...

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