Using portable drives between MS and Apple- permissions issue

Hi all,
I am hoping for some advice with a minor issue I am having.
I have a Maxtor 120GB portable drive which has been formatted to FAT, not NTFS. At work I use MS Windows XP and I saved some documents onto the portable drive so I can take the work home with me.
The issue I am having right now is that some of the files I saved are read only and I am unable to change the permissions to Read & Write (via Get Info to change the permissions).
What can I do to resolve the issue, so I can work from home and at work.
Thanks in advance!

FAT doesn't support file permissions, so I'm not sure what your are seeing.
Can you copy them to your Mac and edit them there?
Another thing to check is if they are locked. Check in Get Info.
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