External HD Volume Format?

I will be receiving a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 300GB external HD. I want to use it on my iBook G4 w/ OS X 10.3.9 and my iBoook G4 w/ OS X 10.4.7 mainly for videos. When I receive it I am told I must erase it and choose a volume format. I would also like to use this on my Win XP PC. Which volume format shoulld I choose when I erase/format this HD; Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Extended (Journaled ), Mac OS Extended (Case-Sensitive Journaled ), Mac OS Extended (Case-Sensitive ), Windows, or other? Any other sugestions? instructions?
Thanks

I have a similar issue. I have a Maxtor OneTouch III USB 2.0 200GB external hard drive. I have been using it to back up my PC and now I'd like to use it to back up BOTH my ibook g4 and my dell pc (Win xp professional). When i followed the instructions that you gave to erase it, and I opened the disk utility, the only choice that included Dos was MS-DOS File System. It did not have a designation of FAT32.
So, can this still work?
Also, I see in the disk utility that there is a "partition" tab. Could i partition this external device, putting some memory into a "pc" partition and some into an "apple" partition?
Thx for your help.

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