Exporting folders to a different drive or location

Hi. Using LR2 in Windows. Would like to export my complete folder structure with all photos to another location at one time. This offers "flattened" photos for easy e-mails and storage. I have been doing this manually by creating similar folders on another part of the drive and selecting all files in the LR catalog folder for export, but this is clumsy and error prone.
In other words, is there a way to basically export all of my photos (about 6,500) in one operation with their folder structures intact to another location and not back to the "original folder" as LR offers?
Thanks much,
Andy Dichter

And likely never unless enough people submit feature requests.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
I have no idea but perhaps the Lr SDK would allow an enterprising developer to create an export plug-in that provides the capability the OP desires.

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