Can't copy a particular photo to USB drive!?

I tried to copy a few photos to a USB drive. When copying one by one, all but one copies across. On the problem photo, I get "The volume is the wrong format for a backup." This happens only on that one photo. The photos are all jpg formats. The problem photo is not the biggest or smallest in size.
The USB disk and partition are formated MSDOS-FAT. Using Disk Utility, I erased the partition and disk, and retried to no avail.
A last note, is that the problem photo is the only one I tinkered with in iPhoto to brighten the shadows.
Any ideas?

Because FAT is a bad drive format - for example it will only handle a small number of files - this photo may have been the nth + 1 on a drive that will hold N files
It has other strange properties too - putting the photos in a folder eliminates most of the issues
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