Network Shared Hard Drive Mac/PC

Not really sure where to start this topic, but this seemed a good place to start.
Like many of us out there, I have tons GB's of music, video, and pictures stored and backed-up. Well, after doing some research and some hard decision making I bought an 300GB; should be enough for a while, ethernet external hard drive to store everything. Got a Western Digital that is both WIN/MAC compatible of course.
Here are my questions:
1. What kind of issues will I run into? Some days I am 100% on my iMac and sometimes 100% on my ole Dell. NEVER at the same time mind you. Both run iTunes and I am sure I will have both acecssing my music folder on the shared drive. Again, NOT at the same time.
2. Putting pictures on the shared drive will hopfully give me easy access from my iMac with iPhoto. I am tired of burning CDs, using my flash media, etc. to transfer to my Mac. Will there be any issues here?
3. I plan to back up all my videos from iTunes to the shared drive. Will there be any problem with iTunes on a Mac and iTunes on a PC accessing the same files?
Clearly, I do not mean they will be accessing at the same time!!! I can see how that would really f'things up. Thanks for the help and advice.

Craig,
I don't know the answer for sure, but here's what I think:
Mac OSX is based on Unix, which is an operating system that's case sensitive and "case preserving". Windows is neither case sensitive nor case preserving. Even if iTunes uses the exact same file arrangement on the Windows version as it does on the Mac version (and most likely that's the case) my feeling is that eventually you may find a situation in which a song added on your windows computer will not be found by the mac even though it's showing in iTunes.
Have you considered using iTunes' capability for sharing playlists? If you have either of those computers turned on at all times, you could leave iTunes running in the background, sharing the entire library. That way you could listen to songs on both systems without problems.
I hope this helps. Regards,
Julian

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