Cant change the read only status of certain folders on my FAT32 external HD

Help someone please.
I have this external hard drive that has all of my music files on it. I was using it with my pc before but am making the difficult transition into mac land now. well over the last few months really. its not proving to be as easy as the marketing would have you believe. So anyway, i removed all the music temporarily from the drive (put it onto the pc's hard drive and a couple dvds), so that my macbook pro could reformat the external drive to FAT32 (which I hear works for both pc and mac). Then I put the music back on the external. and brought into my mac itunes library. then i noticed i couldn't add artwork to SOME of the files. it said "album artwork not modifiable". The external drive's info screen says permission is read and write. SOME of the folders are read and write, but SOME are locked to read only. When I look at the info of the folders and click on the locked box it won't unlock. I've attached the drive to a pc as well and tried to change permissions there but the pc saw all the files as read only. i can drag the folders off the external onto my mac desktop and unlock them there, but i can't even replace the locked files on the external with new the unlocked ones, because of course they are locked and can't be overwritten or thrown away. I've run repair disk permission on my mac's hard drive, I can't run it on the external (disk utility won't give me that option for the external). I've read a ton of discussions and threads and nothing seems to work or to match my unique problem.
Can someone please help me unlock my read only folders on my FAT32 external?

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