Making  photo folders on the desk top- issue?

Currently all my photos are organized in iPhoto by date/roll#. Each picture is given the automatic titles like Pict0008.jpg by iPhoto. Occasionally i want to select certain photos and organize them on the desk top into folders I create. When I drag a photo I took in december titled Pict0001.jpg into the folder on the desktop and then try to drag a photo I took in Feb (which also happens to be called Pict0001.jpg) I get a dialog boxs asking me if I want to replace the older version with the newer one. I understand why it is doing this but I can't seem to by pass the dialog box by retitling the newer photo. Even if I retitle both photos iPhoto still continues to read the original # name it gave the photo when it was imported into iphoto. How can I do this?
Thanks in advance

melanie,
When you rename a photo in iPhoto you are giving it a title which is only reflected within iPhoto. the image name stays the same in the Finder. That is why if you just drag the images from the iPhoto window to the desktop they still have the original file name. In order to change the file name you have to export the image and use either the title or album name as the naming scheme. This does change the image name to the title/album in the Finder for the exported image.

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