Photos dragged to HD from iPhoto become invisible files

I have been experiencing a problem lately where photos dragged from iPhoto to the HD become invisible. The files show up until the window for their location is closed, then they disappear. Cmd I shows that the respective folder has XX amount of space used for zero files. Closer inspection using Cocktail's show invisibles function reveals the photos right where I put them. My iPhoto library resides on an external drive connected to an ethernet server as a share.
I guess this leads me to two questions: First, what could be causing this? Second, how do I make them permanently visible again?
I originally posted this under iPhoto, but another user suggested it was more of a system issue...
Any help would be much appreciated!

Per the suggestion, I opened a few of the files with Photoshop (after making them visible via Cocktail) and they are perfectly intact. I did some further investigating by dragging an mp3 file from my iTunes library which resides on the same shared volume. The mp3 remains visible under the same circumstances that usually cause the image files to turn invisible. After that, I began comparing the info between the two folders which house the two libraries. I think this has led me to the root of the problem... I don't have any ownership privileges of the folder where the iPhoto library resides. Now a new problem... when I try to add myself as owner of the files, it tells me the user name is incorrect, please try again. I even tried using Batchmod to change ownership to no avail. The only thing I haven't tried is to plug the drive directly into my Mac and try changing the privileges—maybe the fact that the drive is connected through the server is blocking me making the change.
...any thoughts?

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