Refuses to copy

Hi,
I'm about to upgrade to Tiger, so before I do I'm doing the sensible thing and backing up my HD. But I'm running into some problems. On certain files, the copying stops and comes up with an error message something like:
"You cannot copy the file name 'Icon
' because the file name is too long or contains invalid characters."
(by the way I meant to put it on two lines cause that how it comes up. For no apprent reason)
The files are not called "Icon" and I'm pretty sure they're not too long or contain invalid characters. It's happening with a number of files, but I don't know exactly which ones yet cause I was batch-copying them.
Anyone know what's going on?

So I create a DMG that I put my files in, which I then copy to my FAT32 HD?
Yes. The dmg can be a maximum of 4GB minus one byte in size after compression. Besides the issue mentioned above, some parts of your data won't be preserved properly if put onto a FAT32 drive outside of a disk image.
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