How Can I Synchronize Files From Mac to PC?

I have a G4 laptop and a PC Desktop (HP Pavilion d4100e, AMD X2 processor, NTFS file system), and I need to be able to work on both. To work on both, I need to synchronize the file systems so that my 30k files on the Mac appear on the PC and I can progressively synchronize as I make changes on one machine or the other.
I've tried a multitude of solutions, but have thus far been unable to set things up so that I can synchronize from one machine to the other. I learned that the copying process from Mac to PC would be interrupted if any of the files had a number of special characters that could occur on the Mac but not the PC, specifically: / \ ? " * . I more recently learned that a space at the end of a Mac file name would, once the file was sent over to the PC, be impossible to open and impossible to change the file name. I fixed all these problems using the mv_sed unix program. Nevertheless, a simple folder copy in the finder would quickly lock up--it would continue forever but no data would be transmitted. I then used the Synk program to synchronize to the mounted PC drive (mounted w/ 'smb').
I got all my files over to the PC, but when I try to synchronize any changes I made since the initial transfer, Synk locks up as well--it keeps running forever w/o any transmission of data. At this point, I realized that I could not list the contents of some of the folders on the PC from the Mac (using Terminal, smb connection). After some experimentation, it became clear that there wasn't anything wrong w/ specific file names, but that it wasn't possible to list the contents of folders that had a large number of files. I fixed that, but I ran into a multitude of additional problems being able to list folders. I don't have the time to figure out why. My guess as to why Synk locks up is that it can't list folders for synchronization.
At this point, I tried to make the file system on the PC more UNIX like, in the hopes that this would make synchronization possible. I installed cygwin on the PC, and I tried to use rsync to synchronize the files. Using cygwin, I seem to be able to list any folder from my Mac. So far, so good. But rsync is unable to transfer many files to the PC. It seems to try to create a temporary copy and then it can't read its own temp file, apparently because the file was never created. It also goofs up at points and puts a copy of a folder inside itself. Also for some reason it copies files over even when they already exist.
So far, no good solution. Is it possible to synchronize a real filesystem from Mac to PC? How? I'm guessing Apple doesn't have much incentive to insure this is possible.
Cheers,
Peter

Hi Peter!
Not sure if this meets your needs and I've never used it but a quick search on the InterWeb reveals this http://www.powerfolder.com/.
Hope this helps! bill
1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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