I'd suggest you try it again , in a guest session.
On lucid it works correctly.
It might be cruft from old hidden files in your /home directory.
** Changed in: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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Cannot Extract in File Roller When Using Default Location
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503690
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