Odd free space issue with USB stick

I'm wondering what may be the cause of this. I have a 2 GB USB stick that 10.6.3 tells me has 2.02 GB available, yet I get an insufficient space error when attempting to move a 831 KB file to the stick. Could there be hidden files mucking up how the OS reads the stick?

I couldn't guess the cause but why don't you try reformatting the stick?
-mj

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