File Labels on USB drive

I have a USB drive attached to my AirPort (3 actually). I use Labels (the colors in the info box) on images and such to aid in ratings & categorization. I've found that I can copy files with Labels applied to the drives and they keep the labels, but I cannot change the labels on files that are already on the drives.
I suspected it was just a caching issue, but I have tried unmounting & remounting the drives to no avail.

try
step 1)
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / i386:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / x86_64:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / i386:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / x86_64:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpmstep 2)
apt-get updatestep 3)
> yum install ntfs-3g
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