Save As (CS4) JPG or PNG

For some time now, I've been meaning to get to the bottom of this, and I guess I'm doing more Save As functions than usual because I'm finally to the point where I need to know how to fix this.
As you can see in the two attached images, I'm saving a PSD file as, Save As JPG, and also Save As PNG. The red arrows point to my issues. There is always a checkmark in the grayed out box called, As A Copy, so it's always saving with a space and then the word copy at the end of the file name. I manually backspace it to get rid of it, but it's getting irritating. Where can I turn this off? Any help is appreciated.
Paula

the problem is the yellow triangle, those file formats don't support Layers so you have to save your file as a copy. To get around this, use File->Save for Web & Devices instead of Save As (or flatten the image before you use Save As but i wouldn't recommend doing that)

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