Best format for a USB flash memory drive?

I got this flash memory drive - one of those little stick things. It is 1GB. When I plugged it into my Mac it didn't mount, so I reformatted it at Mac Extended Journaled.
I put some photos on it and took it to one of those photo printing machines, but it couldn't mount the drive.
I reformatted it again as Mac Extended (without the journaled), but that didn't help.
What is the recommended format for these drives so they are the most widely compatible with other machines, particular Windows.
Thanks!
doug

i want my usb drive to be formatted to fat32 system, but disk utility always format it as fat16. i'm having problems copying multiple files onto it under fat16.
i've tried selecting "ms-dos file system" under volume format, but no avail.
help.
Apple Macbook Pro 15"   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

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