Copy music from iTunes to USB Memory Stick

I am doing what I am supposed to do:
I highlight the songs I want to copy in iTunes.
I drag them to a fold in the USB Memory stick.
Every once in a while I get this error:
The item “name of song.mp3” can’t be replaced because it’s invisible.
I am dragging 100 songs at a time. This happens about 1/3 of the time. I then delete this "invisible" file. Sometimes, when I go back to the iTunes song, I can drag it from iTunes to the momory stick. Other times, I have to go to the file and drag it to the memory stick.
I have a 32 GB USB memory stick that I am loading up to play in my car radio. Doing this 100 songs at a time is taking me days....
I am on OS 10.6.8. I do have the OS setup so that I can see the invisible files.
It looks like, when I drag the music in, grayed out icons appear until the files copy. Sometimes those icons apparently appear as invisible files.
The USB is formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) which is the way it arrived. I suspect that these memory sticks have to be formatted that way for the radio to read the files, but I have not tried the Mac format.

After you copy the files to the flash drive...
Open Terminal (in Applications/Utilities)
Enter: dot_clean
spacebar
drag the flashdrive from the Desktop to the Termnal window
press enter
(From Tony T1 below)
-> https://discussions.apple.com/message/23930251#23930251
Here is bit of an explanation of the ._ files. (which are the hidden files)
-> http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14980/why-are-dot-underscore-files-crea ted-and-how-can-i-avoid-them/14981#14981

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