External HD file size limits for movies

I recently bought (but have not yet connected) a Western Digital My Book Pro ext.HD for storage and started a thread - 'Best external hard drive...?' in the iMac forum to discuss this.
Though the responses were useful I would be pleased to have views from folks who specifically make and store their own movies.
As yet I am only using iMovie to edit DV footage (not HDV) but find, though saving frequently, that even short movies end up as much as 5 - 7GB. Converting them to Quicktime 'full quality' (ie .dv - hopefully with no loss) can sometimes reduce them, but other times very little at all.
My question is, being a little disappointed with the apparent limits in this new purchase:
If I want to keep the WD external in dual format FAT32 enabling me to take files to a PC how can I store files in it over 4GB?
If, as I suspect, this is out of the question and I am forced to reformat to Mac only is there a file size limit here?
Intel iMac 24" 2.16Ghz 2GB Mac OS X (10.4.10) G4 OS9

Using a Mac and video, hard drives would be normally formatted to Mac OS Extended (no limit).
Even though I personally don't do it you could have a partition using FAT32 for Windows.
Having the wrong format will restrict sizes even on Mac if Mac Standard is used. Windows needs to be NTFS for long video files.
Video files are large eg. DV files are 13.5 gig per hour. Compressing them reduces quality more or less depending type.
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