Help!Airport Extreme Drive: Editing Files in Windows adds mysterious 0 char

Hi, I'm experiencing what's probably the strangest bug I've seen in a long time. Maybe you know what to do...
Hardware: Airport Extreme + USB Harddisk (Lacie Two Big in RAID 1 mode) connected to it. Airport Driver is at the latest version (7.2.1) (also tried with 7.2 with the same result)
The whole thing works beautifully with my Macbook Pro.
My Windows XP computer sees the harddisk, can access the files. I can also copy files from the computer's hard drive to the Airport Disk well.
But when I edit files (with OpenOffice, Notepad, ...) the files end up corrupt, e.g. with 0 characters (ascii 0) inserted at the beginning.
Here's what I'm doing:
1. in the windows explorer, get to a folder on the remote disk.
2. right mouse button -> new text file.
3. double click on text file --> notepad comes up
4. type 1234 , then save
5. double click on text file --> content is " 1234"
6. file size is also 8 bytes instead of 4, in emacs hex mode I can see that the first four characters that were magically appearing are ascii 0 characters.
If I do the same with different text, a different number of null characters are prepended, always as many characters as I was entering.
Strangely, creating the same file on a local drive and copying it to the airport HD doesn't mess it up.
I have no clue what could cause this bizarre effect, but my airport harddisk is pretty unusable until I found out how to get Windows to save files properly on it. Did anybody experience something similar?

Others have reported this problem, and from the many discussions I have seen on this topic there is no effective solution. There seem to be (thus far) unexplained reliability problems with saving/retrieving files on the Airport disk, which trouble some people more than others.
The best workaround is to do what you have already discovered - do all file editing on a local copy of the file. Then copy the file to the Airport disk when editing is complete.

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