Trouble Transferring to a Portable Hard Drive and Backing up.

Hi there.
Recently I have come across a small snag when trying to back up my work folder to a portable hard drive. When I drag it across to the drive (Formatted FAT32 if that helps) it begins to transfer and creates the folder before giving me this message 'The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Creative Work” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)'
So I decided to try and repair the permissions on Macintosh HD with Disk Utility. Which gave me this message repeatedly after several tries.
Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Repaired "usr/share/derby".
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
I also tried to repair my permissions with Onyx which game me the same message as Disk Utility. The strange thing about this problem is I cant seem to find anything wrong with any of the files it simply wont let me back them up...
I was able to burn two back ups of the folder with Toast Titanium. Although there seems to be some discrepancies with the file size on the burnt DVD and that on Macintosh HD. Being that the burnt folder is about 0.3 of a gig smaller. I have looked through all the folders and files and cant find anything missing. Though there is a lot in there and I may run into something down the line.
I would really like to be able to get past this problem without having to re-install OS X because I am still not sure whether I have a complete back up of my files on disk.
If anyone could offer me some suggestions I would be greatly appreciative.
Thank You.
(I hope my description wasn't too confusing)

Hi Piccolo32,
There's probably 1 or more files in the folder that are causing the issue. Depending on how many files your dealing with, you could consider dragging and dropping the files 1 by 1, to precisely track down the culprit(s).
*(error -36)* Please see the following posting and let us know if it's the exact same issue your having: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1771300&tstart=3285
*(SUID Error)* Please see this much longer discussion posting, which offers various solutions: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1204263
After reading threw the above posting, it appears, according to apple, the message your seeing can 'safely be ignored'. This is concerning the SUID file.
You appear to be having 2 issues. I was unable to find a solution for the error -36 issue. My suggestion about trying to narrow down which file(s) might be causing the issue is still worth trying, as long as you don't have 100s or 1000s of files to sift threw.
MacLovin
*Remember FAT32 has a file size limitation of 4GB (-1 byte). The previous posting is good advice, regarding formatting the drive to a native apple format.
Message was edited by: MacLovin54321

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