Flash drive no longer works after being connected to a Windows XP machine.

After being opened on a Windows XP machine, the contents of my flash drive now shows up on my Macbook pro as a single .lnk file. What happened? It's MS-DOS (FAT32).
Is there any way out of this or has all my data been lost? I've never experienced this issue previously.

Thanks. I've now scanned it with both Sophos and ClamXav and both have come up negative for infection.
At least while the scan was running I could see that all my data is still there as the name of each file appeared as it was going through the scan.
My efforts to sort this out seem to have made things worse as now it opens up word whenever I try to see the contents. I'll try it on a PC tomorrow and see if I can figure out what happened. Looks like the file system has been damaged in some way.

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    [ 116.825863] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
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    [ 116.825873] ASC=0x12 ASCQ=0x0
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    [ 117.765861] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
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    [ 117.765875] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
    [ 117.765877] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 3f 00 00 08 00
    [ 117.922568] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
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