The document "file_name" could not be saved as...

Selected <Save> on a Keynote 5.0.5 document (~40 slides, 5MB) and got "The document "myfilename" could not be saved as "mynewfilename". The only thing I've done since my last save was an export of all the images as PNGs, and I added a shape created inside Keynote.
I've already experienced problems with Keynote not opening saved documents, which (hopefully) I've corrected with setting Preferences to "Save as Package". Now I'm suddenly getting the message above.
I love this product but I can't believe how unreliable it is. Does Apple actually believe people whose livelihoods depend on this software can risk losing hours or days or even weeks or work when it just surrepitiously decides not to save or open documents?
I was able to copy all the Master slides and slides into a new document which seemed to save OK, but of course now I'm terrified that at any moment I could lose two weeks of work if it pulls one of these corruption quirks. Please don't force me back to Powerpoint.
What's the problem and is anybody working on it? And should I be concerned that neither Keynote nor iWorks even appears in the Product List below? Huh? Hello!? Apple?
jl

I realize it would be convenient if it worked, but I think you're asking for trouble, if what you're trying to do is actively read and write the project on that remote Windows drive.
In the Finder, control-click on the project folder and zip it. Copy the zip archive to the remote drive. At the next Mac you visit, copy the zip archive to that Mac, and open it and use it. And return it when you're done, if you expect to continue your work at a different Mac next time.
Or spend about $40 and get an 80GB portable USB drive, and keep it in your pocket.

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It looks like I'm completely screwed. Why the ****
does iWeb not do incremental backups?
Sounds like something to suggest to Apple. But even if Apple does implement something like this, it doesn't take away the ulitimate responsibility of backing up from the end user. I think Apple has a ways to go in terms of making the Domain file more apparent and visible so that the end user understands that THIS is the file to backup!
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http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/
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