External Drive Not Working Properly

I have a 30GB Lacie Drive I use to transfer data between my imac and my macbook (both are intel machines) - since upgrading to Snow Leopard, it no longer seems to be working properly. It lets me upload some smaller files onto it, but whenever i try to transfer a larger file, it stops after a few seconds and says that there is already a file by this name. I have tried doing a repair on the drive, but it still does not work. any ideas?

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