Flash Drive & Creation Date problems

Hello,
I have had several flash drives (different models and brands), all formatted for MS-DOS, since I need to use them on both Mac & PC... when they are formatted this way my notebook (12 inch Powerbook G4 1.33GHZ, 10.3.9) reads it as having a creation date of Dec. 31 1903, no matter what the actual creation date was. It does this with files that are dragged in from the notebook, from the PC, and from those that are created on the Flash drive. The PC reads the created dates just fine. But once they hit the mac reader, everything gets messed up and only the modified date remains with the file as it gets moved around. The Apple folks say this is a problem if the flash is not formatted specifically for Mac... Does anyone know a way around this so I can use it with both PC and Mac??? Thanks!! Fifi

Use and Ipod. I had so much trouble because whenever I transferred files to a usb drive (stick) it changed the dates to the date they were transferred, not the last day worked one, so I would work on older files without knowing it. Real problem. I tried several sticks and called the companies. It is a MAC problem--the resolution, use your ipod to transfer files and it all works out fine. 10.3.9 seems to be unique to this problem--10.4 seems to have fixed the problem. So, until I change OS, I use my ipod and it works fine.

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