Sharing a PC hard drive with my Macbook?`

Here's what my problem is:
I have a Macbook (OSX Tiger) with only 20 or so GB's of free space, and a PC (Win XP) with 127 GB's of free space. Both computers are connected to the internet with my Airport Extreme base station (PC is wired, Macbook is wireless). I have quite a bit of movies and music, and I would like to be able to move the movies (They don't have DRM's) to the PC's hard drive so that I can still access and watch them at home, but free up space on my hard drive. I know I can buy an external hard drive, but I don't want to spend the money, and burning them as data files to DVD's seems inefficient, since I download a couple of new movies every week.
Here's how far I've gotten:
My Macbook recognizes the Windows HD, and the C Drive on the PC is set to share with other users on the network, and allow them to change files. I have a folder on the C Drive that is labeled so I can store my Mac files in it, also with the same sharing settings. On my Mac, Personal File Sharing and Windows File Sharing are both enabled in both the Services and Firewall tabs of System Preferences> Sharing.
Here's what's throwing me for a loop:
When I drag a file on my Mac onto the PC's hard drive and into my special folder, my Mac gives me a message that says "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items." This happens even if I created the file myself.
I'm stuck on what else to do. I don't know if I am getting the message because my PC's setting aren't correct, or because my Mac settings aren't correct. Thanks for any help, and please reply if any clarifications are needed.

Of course, I don't think you made it up.
However, I do not use third party software and I am able to read, change, and discard whatever I want in the NTFS formatted drive from my PPC mac. In fact, I just tested it. I went into my C drive on the PC through my Mac and opened up a word document. Made changes to it and saved it. I went to my PC and made sure the changes had been made and they had. So...unless I am using third party software without my knowledge and I'm not since I am only one with access to either computer, it can be done!
Now if I could just figure out how to print to a printer hooked up to XP, I would be a happy camper!

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