Can you "lock" a flash drive so that it can't be written to - on XP too?

Hello!
I've got a 2 GB flash drive full of music, numbered and in playlist order, which I like to use with the school lab computers when I don't have my Powerbook or iPod with me. The lab computers run both Windows XP (mostly) and Mac OS X 10.4.X Tiger. I'd like to be able to lock this flash drive, so that it can't be written to when attached to another computer (without a password, at least). iTunes (on the lab machines) will play music from this flash drive, but if I should accidentally delete a song, or have it "keep the iTunes folder organized" - it will rename all of the playlists or delete the song files. This is annoying.
My first thought was to make a .dmg image/volume on the drive via Disk Utility, but that won't work with windows machines. Is there any way to lock this flash drive? It does not have a hardware lock feature. If possible, i'd also like it to work with OS 9.2.2 - but this is most definately not required.
Thanks,
-Daniel

Without a hardware lock I dont think there is a way to lock the drive cross-platform. You can lock all the files on the drive, which will prevent them from being modified, but that's only a superficial lock, as the "lock" checkbox can be edited in both windows and OS X.

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