Hard drive corruption? I need big help!

Hey everyone,
I'll make this short and to the point, well as much as possible.
Basically, my files on my MacBook Pro won't allow themselves to be copied to ANY other item! I've tried on flash keys, external hard drives with USB and Firewire, even on my FTP server! I've also tried to run my MBP as a hard disk on another Mac using a Firewire cable to no avail!
Basically, there was a problem with my system so I did an archive and install until I was able to back everything up properly and reformat/install. There are some files I really need, which I could open, yet I can't transfer/copy! I get "Error - 36"
Anything to fix this or help me?!

Can't read or write the file, often due to Permissions - run Disc Utility and Repair them
Repairing permissions in Disk Utility will never fix permission issues such as this, assuming it is a permissions problem, and will only repair them for software and not data.
Now, to the OP, if you Get Info on both what your are trying to copy and where you are copy to and look in the Ownership & Permissions section do you have read & write permissions for both?

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