Stopping OS X from including "._" files on WebDav shares

We are working with the content system in the new Blackboard 7.1 and are running into an issue. Whenever you copy or save a file from a Mac to the WebDav share, it also copies the "._" resource fork file (like it should since WebDav cannot handle resource forks).
My question is, how do you stop OS X from splitting the file into two? Can you? It is very confusing to our faculty to have two instances of the same file when viewing the Content Manager via Blackboard. Plus it just doubles the file listing and can get big rather quickly.
Advise? Anyone else run into this issue?

I run a webdav server hosted on a mac so I don't experience this problem.
I do experience this issue when copying files from a mac to a windows sharepoint so I guess your webdav shares are running on a windows pc.
have you tried zipping files or enclosing them inside a disk image (.dmg) this fixes the problems when I copy files so an external fat32 formatted drive that I use on pc's as well as macs.

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