Leopard FAT32 Issue, Can't delete Panasonic P2 media locked files

For all final cut users now using a P2 workflow - I ran into an issue with leopard and have to downgrade to tiger.
Leopard is now honoring the "read only" setting on all the media files created by a panasonic P2 camera. My workflow was to dump a card onto my macbook pro while shooting on another card. When the transfer was complete, I would erase the media on the P2 card and put it back in the camera to continue shooting.
Unfortunately in Leopard, I cannot do anything to delete the files on the P2 card. I cannot unlock them in the get info window, I cannot unlock them in the terminal, I cannot drag them to the trash and force empty the trash, and I cannot even delete them via "sudo rm -Rf". I have tried numerous ways of formatting the card via the terminal, but something about its formatting is very specific, and the camera will not shoot on the card if I format it in OS X.
It seems the Leopard Fat32 implementation here is too strict - as I can't remove locked files. Even when running as sudo - Has anyone been able to do this?
Unfortunately I have to downgrade if I can't solve this, because formatting the card in the camera is not an option, as I need to run a continuous shoot.

Yes, this is true - In Tiger, a flawless way of erasing the card without messing up the formatting on the mac was to use the panasonic software. But now in Leopard, you cannot even use the panasonic software to erase the card, because something in the system is not allowing anything locked on a fat32 partition to be modified.
It seems someone tech savvy out there could figure out the proper terminal command on how to format those cards - Which brings me back to the question - why does "sudo rm -Rf" get a permission denied.

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