Illlustrator CS4 saving duplicate file

Lately when I save a file in illustrator, a pop up box comes up and says "some of the specified files already exist in the targe location. The files marked below will be replaced:" Then it proceeds to save a file with the file name that I have specified plus another with with the same file name but with "-01.eps" tagged on to the end. (I attached a screen shot.)
This never used to happen. Did I turn on some feature, and if so, can I turn it off?

On the bottom of the Save As dialog, make sure there is no check in Use Artboards.
When this is checked when saving in EPS, the file is saved once with all the art from all the artboards in one EPS file, plus a separate EPS file for each individual artboard.
If there is only one Artboard in the file, you end up with 2 identical files, one of which has -01 appended to the name.

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