Are HFS+ formatted drives compatible with VISTA?

Can't get my USB HD to work wireless via Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11n.
Apple manual says USB HD needs FAT32 format to work with VISTA. Found freeware to accomplish this-- http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
and successfully formatted the 500GB HD to FAT32 in a single partition--
BUT, the setup still did NOT work correctly. I could now see the drive from within VISTA, but my test write/save to the USB HD wirelessly via AEX failed-- Microsoft Word froze. Test of Microsoft Word file COPIED from laptop's HD to USB HD via AEX appeared to work. But when COPIED file opened, Word program froze again.
Then today I read the following on Wikipedia: "On Windows, a fairly complete filesystem driver for HFS+ exists as a commercial software package called MacDrive. This package allows Windows users to read and write HFS+ formatted drives, and read Mac format optical disks. [9]
A free alternative to MacDrive is HFSExplorer [1] written by Erik Larsson. HFSExplorer is a useful application for viewing and extracting files from an HFS+ volume (Mac OS Extended) or an HFSX volume (Mac OS Extended, Case-sensitive) located either on a physical disk, on a .dmg disk image, or in a raw file system dump."
Wow, imagine my surprise, given that Apple says to format FAT32. If the Wikipedia info is correct, forget FAT32 and its limit of 4GB file size. HSF+ would be a much better format than FAT32 if it's truly compatible. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience on this issue? I really want to be able to backup wirelessly from VISTA and via my AEX, which I otherwise love! Thanks for any help on the issue.

I have been at it today as well
HFS is the better compatible format for VISTA. You can drag the files, but there is no way of having a software backit up for you. The drive will show up As Network Drive and i have been trying for the past 5 hours to figure out how to make it possible. After numerous attempts i gaave up.
So i came down to dragging and dropping the files i want to back up instead.
Good luck

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