Mp3 player doesn't like my tiBook!

I got a 4GB mp3 player which, they said, is Mac compatible.
It did appear on the desktop [tibook,Tiger] and I could drag/drop files.
But I found that files as seen on the player's screen would not get deleted - even though I dragged them to the trash on the desktop.
This suggested to me that this is not really a Mac friendly player...
Then another problem emerged. I can no longer 'pause'. Instead I get taken back to the start of the first item in the playlist. [It did work ok when I first used it. So it appears it got a 'bug'. I think that perhaps the format was messed up by using my Mac on it....]
I got 'iTuneMyWalkman' to act as an intermediary - and that's great. But I don't know how to fix the pause problem.
Someone said something about FAT32 - but goodness knows what that is and how it works! The website left me staring at the wall for a week [not really!]
Anyone help? [Shall I bin it and buy an iPod?!! ©€¡¶¥]
Thanks
John

"the mp3 player should have a clear or reformat function to erase its memory."
Unfortunately the closest it gets to that is 'Firmware version' [LKC9123_0101F] and 'Firmware upgrade' [which I can't work out how to do.... the screen goes blank after showing a connect image - but then nothing much happens except the sound of birds in the garden.................]

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