Leopard can't see FAT 32 partition?

I realize there have been one or two posts on similar subjects, but I haven't seen anything specifically the same, so forgive me.
So, I've had Vista running fine under Boot Camp both before and after the Leopard upgrade, installed on a separate internal 500 Gig hard drive. But due to the fact that Leopard still can't write to NTFS, I thought the easiest way to enable sharing of files between Vista and OS X would be to create a small 20 Gig FAT 32 partition on my Vista disk which I did using Vista's Disk Manager. Except when I boot into Leopard, it doesn't show up and I can't find any way to get Leopard to recognize it. So, the partition is there, it's formatted, but I can only use it in Windows which kinda defeats the point.
Any ideas?

Didn't work, OS X couldn't format the free space via Disk Utility. So I started from scratch and created two FAT partitions with Disk Utility, then installed Vista on one. Now both Vista and OS X can see the common FAT partition.

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