Using TrueCrypt volume shared with Windows

I will be getting a new MacBook Pro shortly, and I plan an having (at least ) 3 partitions - OS X 10.7 HFS+, Windows 7 NTFS, and a data partition I would like to share between the OSs, and have encrypted with TrueCrypt. I would like to store all "important" data on this encrypted partition, including email, photos, most/all user-created files, possibly music/videos, possibly preferences. Questions:
What filesystem should I use? I am currently thinking FAT32 or ExFAT. (I plan on having the data parition be maybe 300GB? The FAT32 limit of 4GB files would only be an issue when I am creating DVD images I think...)
If I am using Mail.app, iPhoto, ... — what problems am I going to run into with putting data in "non-standard" places?
Are apps going to complain about dealing with a non-HFS/"insecure" (i.e. with no permissions) filesystem? (I will be the only user of the MBP.)
Does anyone have a configuration like this?
Any potential problems with using a hidden encrypted partition?
Any other questions I should be asking?
Thanks for any input here.

pbguy22 wrote:
I will be getting a new MacBook Pro shortly, and I plan an having (at least ) 3 partitions - OS X 10.7 HFS+, Windows 7 NTFS, and a data partition I would like to share between the OSs, and have encrypted with TrueCrypt. I would like to store all "important" data on this encrypted partition, including email, photos, most/all user-created files, possibly music/videos, possibly preferences. Questions:
What filesystem should I use? I am currently thinking FAT32 or ExFAT. (I plan on having the data parition be maybe 300GB? The FAT32 limit of 4GB files would only be an issue when I am creating DVD images I think...)
If I am using Mail.app, iPhoto, ... — what problems am I going to run into with putting data in "non-standard" places?
Are apps going to complain about dealing with a non-HFS/"insecure" (i.e. with no permissions) filesystem? (I will be the only user of the MBP.)
Does anyone have a configuration like this?
Any potential problems with using a hidden encrypted partition?
Any other questions I should be asking?
Thanks for any input here.
You will not be able to use Truecrypt in this configuration, I advise not trying.

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