Issue removing USB drives

Hey,
I am encountering a weird issue when trying to remove external USB hardrives.
I click eject, drag the icon to the trash/eject icon in the dock, but nothing happens. The files aren't in use or anything (as far as I know), and it wont let me eject the drive.
When I physically remove the drive, I first get the 'disk in use' notice, then I get the you're-a-bad-boy for doing that warning that says I removed it while it was in use.
What's wrong, and how do I fix this?

Intel iMac -
I get the same message regularly when trying to ejecting flash drives, but mainly with a Memorex Traveldrive. It's formatted for pc. It doesn't matter if any programs were running. I right-click 'eject' and it sits there for awhile, then I get the message the drive is still in use. It's not. I click 'OK' and then right-click 'eject' and then it will immediately eject. It also occasionally happens with Sandisk flash drives whether pc or mac formatted.
Same thing happens on my other intel iMac. Both have 2 1/2 gigs of ram, both are 2ghz duo core running 10.5.7, but it happened on earlier updates also (10.5.6, 10.5.5).

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