Need to write to NTFS!  What's the easiest way?

Because Leopard is screwed up, I have to erase my computer and reinstall. I have a backup drive but there are already files on it and it's formatted in NTFS (don't blame me, it's not my drive, I'm only borrowing it) so I need to make Leopard able to write to this drive so I can backup all my files.
What should I do?

I believe that Apple stated a couple of years ago that they would not be able to implement or trust a standard that is not published. Microsoft has not released the code for a legal examination or implementation.
"With open standards, Microsoft can not change the specs when ever they decide another vendor gets too good/close to a threat to Microsofts software products."
Apparently, each version of Windows has it's own flavor of NTFS with undocumented features and assumptions.
If any of the above is true, then I don't see an easy resolution or solution from Apple unless they were to license the code from Microsoft and be able to support it with upgrades. The code may not even be for sale or rent...
As far as using a USB 2 drive... Fat32 is still the way to go if you want to easily transfer files to either OS. Sure it has problems with FAT loss, but it works very easily.

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