I may be wrong but I thought only 'system' files and similar cause the need to use such utilities.
All files on the disk have privileges. It may be that some of them in the iPhoto folder are set incorrectly.
You could try a search on that folder for just your graphic files, try searching for .jpg .gif etc to isolate out just your media, then copy from that results list. It will however leave behind any directory structure you currently have under that folder. You can of course recreate those folders on the new drive once the pictures have been copied over.
And will lose any iPhoto albums and comment metadata etc.
I'm an iPhoto virgin, so I know 0 about it but I imagine it could export those files or it's library to a nominated destination, any thoughts?
At worst you could burn a CD/DVD from iPhoto, change where iPhoto expects to find its library to be somewhere on the external drive, then re-import the photos into the new Library, but that would be excessive (although it would mean he'd have a backup of all the photos :)
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