Issues with Lion's Finder File Copying (+ Temporary Solution)

1) When copying a file to my workplace's file server (via SMB), the file will appear to copy, and the file's "placeholder" will appear. Upon completion of the copy, the file will disappear.

2) When copying multiple (presumably large) files to my external FireWire 800 drive, the file copy progress window will close, as though the copy has succeeded. However, upon closer inspection, the file sizes of the copied directories do not match, and many files are missing.

In the meantime, it appears that the "ditto" command with the -rsrcFork flag will copy files correctly.

If you aren't familiar with command line, but want to give this a whirl (if you are in a tight spot, for example), here's how to copy a text file called "myfile.txt" from your desktop to an external drive named "Storage":

ditto -rsrcFork ~/Desktop/myfile.txt /Volumes/Storage