IPhoto and PICASA

I've been using the "export" function of iPhoto to upload pictures on my Picasa web albums...but since 2 days ago I get the following error message: "Unsupported output format: text/xml (status 400)". I didn't change a setting, or camera, so I don't understand what's going on. Today I tried to upload using the "Picasa web uloader" program and it worked, but anyway it would be nicer to export the pictures directly from iPhoto...can somebody help me? Thanks

Update: See this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1600183&tstart=0
Regards
TD

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