Trouble exporting photos from iPhoto directly to a flash drive

Hi,
When I exported 7 photos from my iPhoto library, all marked JPEG, directly to my 256MB Memorex flash drive (first time of usage), a strange thing happened. When I opened the flash drive on my computer, 5 photos showed up visually showing the image and two showed up as Generic JPEG icons.
The 5, (from info) were now marked Unix Executable File and the 2 Generics (from info) were marked JPEG.
In going to Target, then CVS Drugs and then Walgreens to have prints made, all their machines showed no images available.
All the images were taken on an HP photosmart 435, 3.1 MP digital camera.
Fortunately, all the images were still on the camera media and they then printed out very well when I returned to Target with the camera media
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Lee
1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 tower Mac OS X (10.3.9) iPhoto 2.0.1, 768 MB ram

Hi captaindad,
I had a similar problem using a flash drive using iPhoto on a Mac and PS on a PC... when I first plugged in the Flash Drive in the PC, most images appeared but not all. I kept refreshing the window and all eventually appeared.
Now, I just drag and copy from iPhoto directly to my flash drive and all seems to be working smoother using this method rather than the export option, also doing it this way always ends up with an Image Thumbnail v. Generic JPEG icon... Rick
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