Deleting multiple "thumb.db" cause OSX to hang totally

I plug in a USB Fat32 drive with about 50% capacity usage. On the drive hold lots of my pictures. Window's system have left behind a lot of thumbs.db file and I would like to delete them. I open finder and using the find option search only in the usb drive and for filenames. once the list of thumbs.db filename is listed I selected all and chose to move them to trash. I have tried both selecting via the drop down menu and using command and delete button. gave it a couple more tried but it just hang the system completely. anyone else encounter this? can this problem be replicated on another system? I was trying to delete about 149 files at one go.

I presume the drive is FAT32. Leopard may not be able to remove those files or worse, mess up the drive completely.
I suggest removing these files in a Windows environment.

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