Exporting from IPhoto 6 to folders on External HD changes photo size WHY?

I have read your replies to other questions about having photos reside on an external hard drive and understand what is said. However I have a problem with the size of the photos changing once I have exported them to a new folder on the external HD. Please read my issue and help me if possible.
I have IPhoto 6.0.5, I recently purchased the upgrade and installed ILife 06 without problem.
Because I have been running out of HD space on my Powerbook G4 I decided that I wanted to put all of my photos that are in the IPhoto library onto my external drive. What I did not want to do was just copy my whole library all at once.
Instead in IPhoto I went to File and Export, chose my external HD and then created a new folder with the same name as the folder I wanted to export. Then I exported and waited for it to complete.
I had no problems doing this and successfully copied all my folders from IPhoto, some 7,000 photos.
Now that I have all the new folders on the external HD my goal was to be able to open and edit/adjust any photo using Photoshop and Bridge. I have recently learned that Bridge gives me a lot more options than IPhoto.
I really want to get away from using IPhoto for anything except for creating cards, calendars and books with the new ILife 06 program.
I have not deleted any of my photos from IPhoto just yet, to be on the safe side.
I have been shooting with a Nikon D70 camera and I normaly shoot with the camera set to take both a "Fine" jpg and a NEF photo at the same time. When I downloaded these photos to IPhoto the result was that I have two photos of the same image with the photos labeled automaticaly in numerical order. Here is an example: DSC_0001.JPG and DSC_0001.NEF
When I go into IPhoto and click on DSC_0001.JPG and look at the size information of the image it tells me:
Format JPEG Image
Size: 2000 x 3008 and 658KB.
When I click on DSC_0001.NEF and look at the size information of the image it tells me:
Format TIFF Image
Size: 120 x 160 and 5.4MB.
Now when I go to my External HD and check the same information for the same photos this is what it tells me:
DSC_0001.JPG:
Kind: JPEG,
Size 1.2MB on disk
DSC_0001.TIF:
Kind: TIFF Document,
Size 148KB on disk
As you can see several things have changed during the exporting to the new folder on the external HD.
First the photo that is supposed to be the JPEG is now 1.2MB
Second the photo that is supposed to be the TIFF is now 148KB
Also notice that the largest file is no longer 4.5MB but 1.2MB and it says it is a JPEG.
Do you know why this would be happening?
Do you know how I can export a folder of photos from IPhoto to a new folder on my external HD and not loose or have change any of the size and kind of photo??
I am hoping that you can shed some light on the situation.
Thanks for your response,
Brad
Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   1.33Ghz, 768 MB DDR SDRAM

Brad
What settings did you use in the Export Dialogue?
When you go File -> Export you get a tabbed box with various options. In the File Export tab you can choose to scale the pics, or keep them the same size, change or retain the format.
Regards
TD

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