IPhoto won't export photos

I was using iPhoto to edit some RAW photos I took today. Several times iPhoto stopped responding, the color wheel just spun until I did a forced quit. After about the third time of this, while I was exporting the edited photos as jpegs. I got a message.... unable to create/user/"myname"/desktop/folder. Now I can not export photos to any location, not my desktop, not an external drive, nada, nowhere. I installed OS 10.5 Friday night. Things seemed to be working OK 'till now. Any advice?
Thanks,
Steve
Message was edited by: S_Mac

S_Mac
This might be a file permissions issue:
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
Regards
TD

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