Sharing external drive between PC & 2 mac laptops - ntfs VS fat32 WARs

and I am having issues with file format.
my goal: to use one of my external drives as an easily sharable storage place through the airport extreme for media, and basic work dosc for me and my wife.
we have a PC desktop and each have mac laptops - me a macbook pro and her a mac pro.
I have an external 380 gig drive that I'd like to use thru the airport extreme. it is currently formatted ntfs and of course airport will only properly work with drives formatted as Fat32.
PROBLEM - command line in windows will not reformat this as a FAT32 drive as WIN XP only supports FAT32 drives up to 32 gig - at least through the format command.
questionm - how do I format this drive so a all or at least a large portion of it is accessible through my wireless network? ? (also why won't airport extreme work with ntfs drives?)
again:
pc desktop running xp pro
mac book pro
mac pro

ps: thanks in advance for any suggestions here

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