Correct format, it worked, but now doesnt??

Hello everyone,
I have both an iMac and Macbook (intels) and I have a 500gig ext harddrive that I use for both. I formated the ext harddrive as a MS DOS (which I believed to be FAT 32). I was able to read and write onto the external on both imac, macbook and a PC. It still is perfectly functional with my imac and PC however on my macbook, I can read it, write onto it, but I can't move anything from the external to my desktop or anywhere else. It seems act like, "what is on the external stays on the external." It only does this on my macbook so it can't be the format of the external right?
Can anyone help with why it does this and how to correct it? I would appreciate it so much. Thanks!
Macbook 2.0 gig RAM & hertz 120gig HD   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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