Unwanted folder duplicates

Something odd is happening when I use an external (via USB 2.0) drive with both my Mac Book and a friend's Windows laptop.
Occasionally an unwanted duplicate of a folder on the external drive is created - it is created in the same location in the file/folder heirarchy, and has the same name except that forward slash characters become tiny, boxed, space invaders.
So "Folder name 16/5/07"
becomes
"Folder name 16507"
Also, the folder seems to behave like a mirror of the original folder. Any new files that are copied to the original folder appear in the new folder also.
How can I stop it, and how can I stop it happening again? I'm a bit wary of just deleting the new, spooky copy in case it in some way messes with the original source folder.
[I also run Win XP on the Mac Book via Parallels... don't know if that might have any bearing on the problem.]
Paul
G5 iMac, Core Duo Mac Book Mac OS X (10.4.9)

OK, but why is a duplicate folder being created? Just to clarify: the original folder is still there, and its name unchanged. Is it a result of XP trying to deal with the illegal charcaters by creating a kind of alias?

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