Odd -- Can't Move Around Files on Flash Drive

I've encountered a strange issue in the last couple days. I've searched the forum and couldn't find anything; pardon me if this has come up before.
I keep lots of files on a 2GB Geek Squad USB drive and I use it all the time. Recently, I've sometimes been unable to move files around within the drive itself. If I try to drag a file to a new folder, for example, the pointer gets that white "do not enter" sign underneath it. This doesn't happen all the time -- I was just able to move a file into a new folder that earlier today I could not move.
Even when this happens I can still seemingly copy files to and from the drive, just not move them around inside the drive itself.
I have read and write permissions on this drive. When the problem occurs I check and I still have the permissions (that is, it doesn't mysteriously switch itself on and off). It's formatted FAT16.
Can anyone take a guess as to why it lets me move files sometimes and other times it doesn't?
Thanks!

Well, FAT16 does work up to 2GB, so it might be fine.
As to your question about the 256/512 entries, sorry, that's over my head!
When you open the Flash Drive on the Mac, how many items, (files & folders), are there visible at the top level? Some FAT16 implementations have a limit of 256 entries at the top level, (folders can have more in them), other FAT16 implementations have a 512 item limit.
I'd try Disk Utility on the Mac to Format/Erase one to FAT32 and see if that helps, or if it's not needed for use with PCs, Format it MacOS Extended.

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