Problems saving on a travel drive used for both my mac and pc

I have both an ibook and a pc laptop, so I use a Memorex travel drive to store many of my documents that I use on both computers. Since I have MSWord for Mac and MSWord on my PC, the majority of the files are Word files.
However, here's my problem: Many times, I will save a Word document from my Mac to the travel drive, and the next time I open the travel drive (whether on the Mac or PC), there is a 1kb file of whatever the saved document was, with the same name as the actual document, but with a ._ before the text. For example, a 45 kb file named "CrimSummary" is saved as such, but a 1kb file named "._CrimSummary" shows up on the travel drive as well. When I open this 1kb document, it is just 5 or so lines of symbols and such.
This whole ordeal happends with about half of the documents I save from the Mac onto the travel drive. It usually (maybe always) saves a functional copy of the document, so it does not seem to be saving this 1kb file instead of the actual file, but it makes me feel that there is something wrong with this situation. At first I thought I was ejecting the travel drive incorrectly, but I do not think that is the case - I eject both the travel drive icon and the "U3 system files" that came along with the drive - then pull the drive out. The drive is still lit, but I do not get any error messages, so I believe I am doing it correctly.
Further, I have a few strange files on the drive that are appearing: ".DS_Store", "Bootex", and a folder called ".trashes".
I really just want to iron this out, as I save very important documents on the drive and hope that this is not indicative of a larger issue with either laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
ibook G3 w/Airport Mac OS X (10.3.9)
ibook G3 w/Airport Mac OS X (10.3.9)

What you are seeing are hidden resource files which in OS X tell you how the folder/drive will look in Finder.
In OS X you don't see them, though Windows does pick them up.
You can safely ignore and delete them without worry.
It is normal behaviour to see these files.

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