Access Snow Leopard Folders from Boot Camp running Vista

Hi.
I have a MacBook with a three partitioned hard drive. 2 partitions are HFS+, 1 for Snow Leopard and 1 for storage of my music, photos and video files etc. The 3rd is a Boot Camp partition on which I have Windows Vista installed. I find that I can access every folder and file on my storage partition except for those in the music folder. When ever i I try to access this folder I get an error window stating: "element not found"
This is irritating as I would like Windows Media Player to access the music in this folder like it can with the video files stored in a Folder on the same partition.
If anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful.
Regards
Rick

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