Can't copy files to airdisk; airdisk usage causes time capsule to restart

i have the following; leopard 10.5.3, airport utility 7.3.1, western digital 1tb fat32 formatted mybook essential; airport express (joined to network on time capsule); 500gb time capsule, macbook pro;
my problems are as follows. keep in mind that i have toyed w/ all setting on time capsule and seem to get varying degrees of failure.
1- preparing for backup can take up to 30 mins. i am backing up manually, not every hour. not sure if this is really a problem or not, but i don't mind it as i just want to kick off a backup before bed.
2- this is the real problem. for the airdisk. i have files/folder w/ read write access (for me, everyone and staff). i can occasionally get a file to copy over, but most of the time it looks like the file is copying, and then it fails w/ insufficient privileges for some of the items). then i'm left w/ some files that are zero size, and i can't delete b/c i don't have sufficient privileges for those files. sometimes a restart of the laptop causes these files to disappear.
3- sometimes accessing the airdisk causes the server to either disconnect, or the airdisk to fail to mount. again, this is hit or miss.
i didn't have these problems copying stuff before 10.5.3.
i have toyed w/ permissions on my home folder, giving everyone read write access. i hope this won't mess anything up.
please help. i want to love my new mac, but not being able to copy a simple mp3 to airdisk is killing me. i have toyed w/ all options on airdisk, and none seem to help.
thanks for your time.
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Yes, it's formatted as HFS+.
Just to make sure, I've unplugged it from the Time Capsule & plugged it into the USB port of my Mac again & it works fine like this. But now I've plugged it back into the Time Capsule it's now working fine. Strange.
Thanks for the suggestion
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