Safari 3.2: Can't drag images to desktop!?

Hi there.
I just downloaded Safari 3.2 - and I can no longer drag images to my desktop. When I try to do this, the image converts to a weblog or pagesource ( instead of a .gif, jpeg, .png - like it did with the previous version)
Anyone else having this problem? And how can I fix this?
Thank you

sorry for my post. I was able to solve it. I made iPhoto find the library again. I put my whole iPhoto library on the desktop and then I opened iPhoto and made it find the library on the desktop. And then it worked! And after that I put my iPhoto library back to where it should be, opened up iPhoto and made it find the library again. And now I can drag pictures to the desktop again
hmm... I wrote kinda crappy... well I hope you understand anyway...

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